"Well, you are a rare parrot-teacher."

[talkstowolves]

Yesterday, via tithenai, I discovered that it was Talk Like Shakespeare Day in addition to being International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day. Rapscallion that I am, I didn't even visit the website before engaging in the following conversation with a friend (who, for obvious reasons, I shall here refer to as 'cos'):

Our Heroine: You know, Talk Like

Comments

[angevin2]

I have to admit I was totally horrified when I saw that they advised you to call men "sirrah." Unless you're talking to children or servants, that's a pretty big insult!

[talkstowolves]

I know, right? What made me almost willing to play by their rules, I'll admit, was my amusement over the last two items on the list.

[elissa_carey]

I adore Beatrice and Benedick's bickering. It's too great for words!

And, when having an attack of Silly, I lapse into the fake Shakespearian already. I flip between that, Pirate, fake Ghetto (to poke fun at the misappropriaters), East Coast/Mike Myers "Coffee Talk" kibbitzing and Texan Drawl'n'Twang.

[tithenai]

I must admit that I randomly "talk like Shakespeare" anyway.

This more than anything else was why I was like, mrr, no need! Deliberate archaisms really are an integral part of my speech patterns, and I like to think I use "sirrah" correctly when the situation tongue-in-cheek-ly warrants it.

I did, however, LOVE the last two items... Always wanted to woo a boy by locking him in the Tower, banishing his friends and claiming the throne...