AKMA’s Random Thoughts

Or They’ll Keelhaul Ye!

Arrr, mateys, link ye up to David Weinberger and Dan Gillmor’s new site, Word Pirates. They’re fighting to liberate words from their captivity to stuffed-shirt spinmeisters, to mealy-mouthed managers, to yahoo euphemizers, and restore to these words their appropriate significance. (Boy, do I have philosophical problems with this, even as I whole-heartedly share the sentiment.)

And don’t forget, there are fewer than forty-eight hours till International Talk Like a Pirate Day, by which they don’t mean “saying things from the Word Pirates site.”