Well, yes, but (as the story goes) that's because the actor that Disney hired back in the 50s to play Long John Silver and Captain Blackbeard used a West Country accent and those verbal tics stuck.
But honestly then, do we know what pirates actually sounded like? English speaking pirates that is. Or would it just not have been very interesting, the same way it isn't interesting how 1820s Scottish plumbers in particular used to talk?
Given how deep religion ran at the time, I'd imagine religious curses were common, but perhaps they swapped more harmless versions of words to avoid offending the lord or taking his name in vain.
Historians in 2547 are going to claim that forum nerds from the 2020s all talked with east Silesian accents, because at some point a Polish actor with a heavy accent is going to portray {insert random civfanatics forum member here} in a famous movie. And in 2883 it is going to be printed in Texas textbooks that everybody in Canada used to talk like a duck. Vikings don't have horns on their helmets, Pirates don't say arr, STOP LYING TO ME
People are freaked that their communication electronics can be made to explode. Imagine how upset they will be when earphone thingees start blowing up.
One of the most chilling aspects of that operation is that the pagers delivered an alert and message right prior to the explosion. So people pulled them out to look at them, as one does with these devices. In addition to those killed, there were many more who lost one or both eyes.
And then, as you say, now everybody will be on edge at the thought that these everyday devices could potentially kill or maim us.
If you count being obstructed in its course to the sea as a wound for a river (and it does distress him), then Achilles could be said to "wound" Scamander in book 21.
If you count being obstructed in its course to the sea as a wound for a river (and it does distress him), then Achilles could be said to "wound" Scamander in book 21.
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