Today be Interrrrnational Talk like a Pirate Day. Yaaarrrrr! As be th’ norm fer this blog, I must post a little nonsense t’ mark th’ occasion. If ye’re usin’ Linux, th’ easiest way t’ convert a chunk o’ text into somethin’ respectable be t’ use th’ pirate filter. On Ubuntu (and prrrrrobably other Debian-based distrrrros), do th’ followin’ or walk the plank:
sudo apt-get install filters
Open a terminal then run:
/usr/games/pirate
Paste a chunk o’ text into th’ terminal, and it will echo yer text as filtered through enough grog t’ waylay Blackbeard himself.
If you already have a chunk of text in a file, do the following:
cat textfile.txt | /usr/games/pirate > walktheplank.txt
Previous Talk like a Pirate posts:
- Play like a Pirate (Telltale Games’ Tales of Monkey Island series is 70% off today through the 26th by the way!)
- How do you talk like a pirate?
- Happy Talk like a Pirate Day!
Other FtB bloggers who won’t be made to walk the plank:
Get on it, me hearties! Post yer piratey entries now or we’ll chum the waters with yer entrails! Yarr!