Facebook now 100% more pleasin’ t’ real pirates

Quinton Healy (QCH2002) Arrr, Facebook be offerin' a way ter read the site in a manner pleasin' ter th' vile, seafarin' sort.

November 12, 2009 12:52 PM ET in Articles, , , ,

Talk Like a Pirate Day is September 19, and it’s one of our favorite days here at Icrontic, but it seems Facebook is a fan as well. Even veteran users may not know that the site offers users the option to read Facebook entirely in pirate speak.

So what does it look like to read Facebook in High Seas English?

Arrr! Feast ye one good eye on this fine piece o' web design.

Arrr! Feast ye one good eye on this fine piece o' web design.

Interested pirates can activate scurvy speech by scrolling to the very bottom of their Facebook page and clicking English (US), or whatever ye mother tongue might be; select “English (Pirate)” from the list and be on ye merry, savvy?

(Ed: In b4 old).

6 Comments:

  1. Gargoyle
    12 Nov '09, 6:21 pm

    I switched it on for TLPD (two years ago ) and left it on for awhile, but it eventually drove me crazy.

    Cap'n John has a nice ring to it, though.

  2. Thrax
    12 Nov '09, 6:40 pm
    (Ed: In b4 old).
  3. Lincoln
    12 Nov '09, 7:06 pm
    Quoting Gargoyle

    I switched it on for TLPD (two years ago ) and left it on for awhile, but it eventually drove me crazy.

    Same here. After the second interface change, I decided Facebook was hard enough to use in English.

  4. QCH
    12 Nov '09, 8:31 pm

    I come out of retirement to post an article and it's old.

    Well, at least some of us think its new...

  5. branmyson
    13 Nov '09, 9:14 pm

    Well, if it helps at all, I did not know about it so it did help me at least... Now lets see how long I can stand it, since the above apparently did not last.

  6. QCH
    13 Nov '09, 9:30 pm

    Next up.... UPSIDE DOWN. That version was way weird to me.

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