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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 |
AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrg
Submitted by Mr Jimpsky (not verified) on Sun, 2007-09-30 20:36.
Ahaarr ma harties
FXO Mr Jimpsky 'ere of the BWA. I'll not be needin' a piratie talkin parrot because I 'appen to be one. I be needin' the reverse thar ye scalliwags and this 'ere be me request. Only the likes of ye scurvy dogs will dead reckonin' me piratie toungue.
AAAHharrr
Come along side sometime at the BWA, just type "piracy" into the places search.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHAAAAAAA%RRRRrrrrr
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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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Th' filter on th' listen