2008-10-29, 11:03 PM
Takebacker Wrote:Yes words can mean different things but i've never seen someone going from viper (which means to basically strike fast) to buccaneer (which pretty much literally means a spanish pirate). O_oBuccaneers were actually pirates who attacked the Spanish Armada, not Spanish pirates!
Corsair is too french, i don't like it that much.
A little pirate history:
- Corsair (French origin) > Lettre de Course > Letter from the French king to chase merchant ships.
-- Corsairs operated mainly in the Mediterranean Sea
- Buccaneer (Caribbean native origin) > Buccan > Boucan (French) > Tool to smoke meat on.
-- Boucaniers (French) / Boekaniers (Dutch) / Buccaneers (English) operated mainly in the Caribbean.
So now we all know what the names mean!
Both Corsairs and Buccaneers were real "groups" of pirates, Nexon did a good job on renaming them!