Heads up, matey! It be a pirate translation service!

Every September 19th is International Talk Like a Pirate Day and when it lands on a Friday as it does this year, well that’s an excuse to keep your tongue good ‘n salty all through the weekend. To help you keep up the shanty-banter via email, check out this Pirate Translation site that will take your straight talk and piratize it in an instant. As with any online translator, this one provides its fair share of hilarious errors. Here’s what we typed in followed immediately by what we got back. Notice the translation of the word “miss.”

Original:
Coworkers love to speak like pirates. This Friday is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. We’d rather walk the plank than miss a chance to speak about our argyle socks and fashion conscious eye patches. Don’t even get us started on our parrot obsession. Hope you have a wonderful, booty-filled weekend.

Translation:
Coworkers lust to shout like band ‘o pirates. This Friday be International speak Like a scurvy pirate Day. We’d rather walk th’ plank than comely wench a chance to shout ’bout our arrrrgh-yle socks and fashion conscious eye patches. Don’t even get us started on our parrot obsession. Avast and ahoy, woe ye have a wonderful, lovely booty-filled shore leave.