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Enjoy Yer Facebook in Pirate Mode Today
September 19th, 2008
| By Justin Smith | 20 Comments » |
For those who haven’t been gearing up in recent weeks, September 19 is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. To celebrate, Facebookers have created an easter egg and translated the whole site into swashbuckler using Facebook’s crowd-sourced Translations app. Enjoy!
To translate your Facebook for the high seas, scroll to the bottom and choose Pirate English:
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September 19th, 2008 at 3:30 am
[...] know that it’s the International Talk Like a Pirate Day if it weren’t for Facebook, who added a new translation (English (Pirate)) to their Translations application, or FriendFeed, which has turned into an [...]
September 19th, 2008 at 3:46 am
That is so incredibly awesome.
September 19th, 2008 at 4:15 am
[...] know that it’s the International Talk Like a Pirate Day if it weren’t for Facebook, who added a new translation (English (Pirate)) to their Translations application, or FriendFeed, which has turned into an [...]
September 19th, 2008 at 5:33 am
[...] know that it’s the International Talk Like a Pirate Day if it weren’t for Facebook, who added a new translation (English (Pirate)) to their Translations application, or FriendFeed, which has turned into an [...]
September 19th, 2008 at 5:38 am
[...] Enjoy Yer Facebook in Pirate Mode Today [...]
September 19th, 2008 at 5:40 am
[...] Facebook like a pirate [...]
September 19th, 2008 at 5:55 am
Hahaha! That really is funny! I love it!
Facebook really do have a good sense of humor.
September 19th, 2008 at 8:54 am
[...] geen internationale Piraten dag hebben waar iedereen Piraats moet spreken. Facebook heet een vertaling bijgevoegd, Friendfeed kon moeilijk anders dan volgen en ook Googlarrr is mee op de boot [...]
September 19th, 2008 at 11:01 am
[...] Enjoy Yer Facebook in Pirate Mode Today [...]
September 19th, 2008 at 11:07 am
[...] Enjoy Yer Facebook in Pirate Mode Today [...]
September 19th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Yays! I love International Talk Like a Pirate day.
I wanted to be a pirate when I was little.
Now my facebook is piratey.
Will this stay on facebook permanently or is it just for today?
September 19th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
I noticed some people talking about this but wasn’t quite sure what they were referring to. Now I know
September 20th, 2008 at 9:53 am
[...] I even know that it’s the International Talk Like a Pirate Day if it weren’t for Facebook, who added a new translation (English (Pirate)) to their Translations application, or FriendFeed, which has turned into an [...]
October 28th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
[...] companies like Google and Facebook have indulged themselves. [...]
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:03 pm
[...] media platforms are now available in foreign languages (heck, Facebook even allows for an ”English -Pirate” option). I have several multilingual friends whose Facebook walls are an even mix of English [...]
September 8th, 2009 at 11:47 am
Ok will give it a go m8..lol
September 11th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
[...] it’s yet another joke language for the site. Another one, “English (Pirate),” has previously launched but is still in “beta”. Both dialects are available as [...]
September 18th, 2009 at 7:01 am
[...] has translated its site into Pirate English. Last year, you were able to access the dialect within the normal language chooser available in your account settings. But Pirate English [...]
September 19th, 2009 at 5:36 am
[...] you use Facebook (and you should, since there’s a Mutant Reviewers group on there!), then change your language settings to “English – [...]
October 1st, 2009 at 8:49 am
HAHA! I did it when my friend posted it as a status! I love it!!! it’s friggen hilarious!
posted 2 shots o’ rum ago XD