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Speak Like a Pirate in Second Life
Submitted by Leon Atkinson on Mon, 2006-09-18 17:12.
Culture | Second Life | Technology
September 19th is Speak Like a Pirate Day. In honor of this festive occasion, I would like to offer the following service. A PHP script hosted on our servers that translates "normal" speak into piratespeak, and a matching Second Life script that uses the service for in-world translation.
Here's how it works. You talk to the parrot on a private channel. It speaks your words in piratespeak outloud.
To make your own pirate parrot...
- first, get a parrot. I got mine on Parrot Island.
- Put the pirate.txt script to the parrot. It's attached to this post.
- Give the parrot an appropriate name.
- Wear the parrot on your shoulder.
- Prefix your chat messages with /741 so the parrot can hear you.
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| piratespeak.png | 101.73 KB |
| pirate.txt | 516 bytes |
brilliant!
Submitted by Shannon -jj Behrens (not verified) on Thu, 2006-11-16 01:13.
Need I say more?
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No need t' be changin' channels
Submitted by Leon Atkinson on Tue, 2006-09-19 09:45.
Th' filter on th' listen call only pays attention to th' object owner, so there won't be channel conflicts unless ye be makin' objects and sharin' wi' people.
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Arggh
Submitted by Steve Nelson on Tue, 2006-09-19 11:12.
Yah, I gave a parrot to Mandible Goodnight and it was doubletalking. Now I know!
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Chat channel 741
Submitted by Steve Nelson on Tue, 2006-09-19 09:36.
If more than one of you are wearing your parrots in the same area, you can edit your chat channel from 741 to another value. That way you can have a pirate party and not have parrot cacophony!
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AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrg