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L O W L A N D S - L * 06 July 2006 * Volume 08
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From: 'Global Moose Translations' <globalmoose at t-online.de>
Subject: LL-L 'Songs' 2006.07.06 (04) [E]

Ron wrote:
>I'm surprised we haven't discussed pirates more than we have, for instance
about
>Klaus Störtebeker from our neck of the woods, not to mention the many
British and
>American pirates, to name but a few.

Here's another great website containing detailed information and bios of
famous pirates:
http://www.charlestonpirates.com/, including one of the most famous pirates
of all times, Edward Teach (probably also not his real name) a.k.a.
Blackbeard. When she was little, my oldest daughter had high ambitions of
becoming a pirate when she grew up, but now she's in college studying
architecture instead, even though her hobby is medieval swordfighting, just
in case.

I had a fun project recently, translating a Pirates of the Caribbean video
game into German for Disney. First I got the text to translate, then Johnny
Depp got his hands on it and changed most of his lines; they were much
better and funnier afterwards, and much more in keeping with Capt'n Jack
Sparrow. I didn't mind redoing them several times as he thought of something
new during every studio session because, of course, they paid me for each
new version...

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Nautica

Good deal, Gabriele!

I think Johnny Depp is one of the most gifted actors we currently have.  What you
told us proves one of the talents I admire about him most: his creativity.  I'm
glad he gets to rewrite stuff now that he has more clout.  That's a fresh breeze
in Hollywood.

(By the way, Johnny Depp is part Cherokee, one of quite a few American artists
and entertainers who is.  I've mentioned some of them at the very end here:
http://www.lowlands-l.net/anniversary/tsalagi-info.php)

What many people don't know is that there were quite a lot of female pirates. 
They were particularly numerous off the Chinese coast, but there were some
elsewhere.  Most recently there were Gertrude Imogene Stubbs ("Gunpowder Gertie,
the Pirate Queen of the Kootenays"), "Sadie the Goat" (of New York State -- oh,
no messin' with the Goat, I tell ya!), Margaret Jordan (of the Canadian East
Coast) and, as late as in the 1980s, "Linda" of the Philippines.  This is not
counting scores of Chinese pirates from the 1st millenium BCE till the 1940s CE.
 Piracy used to be a family business along the China Coast, as was highway
robbing in Europe, especially in inns that were really traps.  As the old saying
goes, "Kin that do pillage and plunder tears naught in the world asunder."  (Not
really. I just made it up, of course.)

http://www.deadmentellnotales.com/onlinetexts/womenlist.shtml

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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From: 'Kevin and Cheryl Caldwell' <kevin.caldwell1963 at verizon.net>
Subject: LL-L 'Songs' 2006.07.06 (04) [E]

> From: 'Global Moose Translations' <globalmoose at t-online.de>
> Subject: LL-L 'Morphology' 2006.07.05 (04) [E]
>
> Reinhard wrote:
> >Enjoy, despite the "Morphology" -> "Songs" crossover (for which I blame
> Gabriele
> >of course, because she made me do it with her "Fünfzehn Mann auf des
> toten
> Mannes
> >Kiste" [Fifteen men on a dead man's box])!
>
> Yo ho ho... savvy?

And a bottle of rum.

Actually, it's "Fifteen men on a dead man's chest" in English, not "box".

Kevin Caldwell

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From: Tom Mc Rae <t.mcrae at uq.net.au>
Subject: LL-L 'Songs' 2006.07.06 (04) [E]

On 07/07/2006, at 5:20 AM, Global Moose Translations' <globalmoose at t-online.de>
wrote:
>
> Can't wait for the second "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie to finally come
> out in Europe!
WE got it here already !
>
> There's a ditty from the computer game "Freddie Fish" that my dear daughters
> love to sing because it is so wonderfully annoying:
> "I am a little fishie swimming to and fro.

And I recall the 60's group The Incredible String Band with their...
"Singing ladybird ladybird wha/at is your wish ?
Your wish isn't granted unle/ess it's a fish.
Your wish isn't granted unless it's a fish.
A fish in a dish, if that's what you wish."

Regards
Tom Mc Rae

Brisbane Australia
Oh Wad Some Power the Giftie Gie Us
Tae See Oorsel's as Ithers See Us
Robert Burns

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