Mythopoeika
I am a meat popsicle
- Joined
- Sep 18, 2001
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- Inside a starship, watching puny humans from afar
I think the general 'pirate' accent might have something to do with the speech patterns of the peninsula of south-west England - lots of seafaring history and sailors' stories - jazzed up a bit for fiction.
No-one knows why pirates become pirates - they just arrrrrrrrrrrrr!