Those who experienced already with the ‘pirate‘ version of English in Facebook may not find interesting this post actually. This language was added on September 2008, so it’s not new but still enjoyable. I had been using that language when it showed up, and now set it up back again.
The nice thing about that language is being so funny that you cannot wait to explore what you will hear on the next page. Some sayings in the ‘pirate‘ language may not be easy to understand because of the culture difference, but it still makes you laugh mostly. For example, having ‘bottle‘ instead of ‘inbox‘, ‘mateys‘ for ‘friends‘, ‘what be troublin ye’?’ for ‘what do you think? ‘* are creative replacements. The ‘pirate‘ language is being updated by Facebook crew day after day, so more things are on the way I suppose.
I want to announce here that I wish we had the same thing for our own language, Turkish. Or another types of languages spoken in Turkey; for example Laz (Lazca), or another accents of Turkish. Why is that? Because it could be funny and more enjoyable in Facebook. Beside that formal languages, why can not we create our original language for Facebook? I mean, in an interesting way, there could be some ‘settings‘ section for the language and we could be able to change the name of Facebook menus to whatever we like. Because, most of the people spend their time in Facebook, so it’s getting bored to see same stuff on the screen. Playing with the language could be better.
Anyway, there is a wiki post of ‘pirate‘ language, if you would like to check it out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Talk_Like_a_Pirate_Day
* depends on Facebook’s version