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dennyHaving received my PotC DVD, I ended up not watching it last night, because instead I went to the cinema in MK with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rixxin. To watch, erm, PotC (at easyCinema, for £1.55). This being the third time I've seen it, I managed to tear my eyes and mind off of Cap'n Sparrow for long enough to notice a few mis-applications of 'aye' this time.
As far as I'm aware, the derivation of 'aye aye' as a shipboard term is from the formal phrase "I understand the order I have been given, and I will comply with it fully", used when receiving orders in the Navy. As such, "Aye sir" is an appropriate response to an order, but not to a question to which the answer is 'yes' - then you say "Yes sir" (also, saying 'yes sir' to an order would be wrong, as it doesn't officially say that you're going to do as you've been told). In PotC, 'aye' is used for 'yes' in a couple of places that I noticed.
Just thought I'd mention it, for no particular reason.
Of course, the scottish seem to use 'aye' for 'yes', so perhaps there are other derivations - but the one used by pirates is likely to be the one I've given above, I think?
Mmmmm, Cap'n Jack Sparrow. Excuse me a moment...
rixxin. To watch, erm, PotC (at easyCinema, for £1.55). This being the third time I've seen it, I managed to tear my eyes and mind off of Cap'n Sparrow for long enough to notice a few mis-applications of 'aye' this time.As far as I'm aware, the derivation of 'aye aye' as a shipboard term is from the formal phrase "I understand the order I have been given, and I will comply with it fully", used when receiving orders in the Navy. As such, "Aye sir" is an appropriate response to an order, but not to a question to which the answer is 'yes' - then you say "Yes sir" (also, saying 'yes sir' to an order would be wrong, as it doesn't officially say that you're going to do as you've been told). In PotC, 'aye' is used for 'yes' in a couple of places that I noticed.
Just thought I'd mention it, for no particular reason.
Of course, the scottish seem to use 'aye' for 'yes', so perhaps there are other derivations - but the one used by pirates is likely to be the one I've given above, I think?
Mmmmm, Cap'n Jack Sparrow. Excuse me a moment...
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Date: 2003-12-02 08:26 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-02 08:33 am (UTC)*chuckle* I really doubt that - it sounds like folk etymology to me. No more plausible than the notion that "tip" stands for "To Insure Promptness" or that "posh" was stamped on Cunard liner tickets for cabins "Port Out, Starboard Home", given that, as you say, "ay" or "aye" is a dialect form of "yes".
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Date: 2003-12-02 08:45 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-10 04:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-10 04:25 pm (UTC)The easyCinema thing is interesting... I wonder how well it's doing in covering its costs etc.