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Handily combining two of my recent blog posts about Facebook and International Talk Like a Pirate Day respectively I discovered on the evening of 25th September that although I may be marooned in the scurvy depths of ‘New’ Facebook, I can feel at least slightly better about my plight by altering my settings so that instead of bog-standard and boring English my Facebook experience is now brought to me in the glorious High Definition English(Pirate) language version, as shown in this picture in glorious colour.

Yes, it’s the same ‘New’ Facebook that has caused al the controversy, but it has amusingly translated all the regularly used links and phrases into Pirate Speak, so rather than friends you have “Me Hearties”, “Bottle o’ Messages”instead of inbox, etc…
The only question is how long before we are inundated with different language variations in the settings menu? I can actually envisage a Trekkie sat in their bedroom translating Facebook into Klingon as I type this…

UPDATE: Apparently between my switching my profile and making this post Facebook have seen fit to remove the English(Pirate) option from the language settings. No doubt aside from the people with pitchforks and torches already hating the nerw layout they will now be besieged by pirates and buccaneers who will no longer be able to understand the site!