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Of course, 'bum', in its correct retrograde inversion (as Silver notes), is 'wnq' - an early and somewhat bowdlerised version itself of 'wanq', an early form of the modern 'plank' (as in 'walking the gangwanq/plank). And in the process perpetuated the degraded colonial title for the town Hwangie in western Zimbabwe (it was known as 'Wankie' right up until the earliest days of independence). Treasure Island appeared in 1881-1882, just 6-7 years before Cecil J. Rhodes established the rights to mine and exploit the land that would then become known as Rhodesia. Racial theories were commonly used in order to ideologically justify colonialism, and this was no exception. The title 'Wankie' for the town helped to consolidate the notion of African people as uncivilised, driven by dangerously uncontrolled sexual desires, and thus requiring the 'civilising' force of colonial rule. Yet the pirates of Treasure Island also belonged to the category of the 'other', having been othered relative to the hegemonic British culture, and so this offers the possibility for a subversive, counter-cultural reading of the novel; in such a context, one should not overlook the fact that the Caribbean island on which the treasure is buried would itself almost certainly have been developed through the importation of African slaves in an earlier period of the British Empire. |
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« Reply #31 on: 17:33:02, 18-09-2007 » |
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Thank you all kindly. So it wasn't a corruption of "Yo ho ho and just a very small glass of Crest" then?  |
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« Reply #32 on: 18:17:42, 18-09-2007 » |
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No, that's Hardy's as in "Kiss me Hardy's".
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« Reply #33 on: 18:24:02, 18-09-2007 » |
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Well shiver me... etc
Just so I can be all ready for tomorrow, how do pirates pronounce 'rum' and 'chest' so that they rhyme with each other?
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« Reply #34 on: 21:13:02, 18-09-2007 » |
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Avast ye self! Me shipmates and me have been markin' this day for many a year now. Arrr. Tomorrow I be markin' the day by use o' me very own pirate keyboard:  Arrrr! |
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Allegro, ma non tanto
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« Reply #35 on: 22:21:07, 18-09-2007 » |
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Have I ever mentioned that Stephen Storace wrote a "A Grand Romantic Opera, The Pirates"??
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« Reply #37 on: 13:30:03, 19-09-2007 » |
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AAAARRRRGGGG me hearties! Pieces of eight (what?) and other piraty things  |
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« Reply #38 on: 13:51:41, 19-09-2007 » |
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Avast and ahoy, young Jonathan lad! I does raise moy pint o' grog at ye, ye shell-lovin' land lubber, ye!
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« Reply #39 on: 13:53:31, 19-09-2007 » |
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I can't talk like a pirate.
But I can sing like my "piratical maid-of-all-work" namesake.
Indeed, I have. In a school production.
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Oft hat ein Seufzer, deiner Harf' entflossen,
Ein süßer, heiliger Akkord von dir
Den Himmel beßrer Zeiten mir erschlossen,
Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür!
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« Reply #40 on: 14:22:36, 19-09-2007 » |
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Ahoy Shipmates!
I've juuss' been a'tellin' me workmates tha' 'tis 'Speek loike a Poirate' day. Young Jim-Lad is moity impressed. Min' you, 'e be from Devon, so it aint 'ard for 'im to speak loike wun ov uz.
oo-ar oo-ar, wurz moi combine 'arvester?
Sorry, oi slipped out of character there for a woile. Boi the way, anyone driven a combine wiv a peg leg?
Cap'n Tommo
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« Reply #41 on: 14:26:44, 19-09-2007 » |
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Watch out! Bandits at one o`clock! Oh shoot, wrong character!
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« Reply #42 on: 14:39:11, 19-09-2007 » |
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There is only one Corsaire for me:  Nureyev is the one in the baggy trousers, the other is Alla Sizova. I'm reading the new biography of him at the moment. |
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« Reply #43 on: 14:39:42, 19-09-2007 » |
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Ahoy Shipmates!
Sorry, oi slipped out of character there for a woile. Boi the way, anyone driven a combine wiv a peg leg?
How can a combine harvesterrrrr have a peg leg, ey matey??? Sounds like it be a bit o' a tall story to me, arrrrr it does! |
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« Reply #44 on: 14:43:19, 19-09-2007 » |
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Quid est veritas? Arrrrr.
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