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- From: garton@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Simon Garton)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
- Subject: Re: Strata annotation
- Message-ID: <41153@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 23:17:28 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.121702.24736@wega.rz.uni-ulm.de> <leo.721992233@galaxy>
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- >May be, but fake latin is of course not something that Terry has
- >invented himself. (I always thought the usual name for it was
- >pig-latin, but perhaps I'm mistaken)
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- >In fact, it is not confined to the English language either. In Dutch
- >for instance I know there are entire family names consisting of a
- >'latinized' version of a normal Dutch word, e.g. a man named 'Vos' who
- >starts calling himself 'Vossius', because it sounds fancier...
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- >Anyway, the reason that I use 'dog-latin' in the APF is because Terry
- >calls it that in his own articles.
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- pig latin is a schoolboy code : you use normal english but mix
- around the beginnings and ends of words with extra bits thrown
- in. It comes out sounding like gibberish but if you know the
- code it's really easy to follow. I've forgotten it all now
- (PLEASE ! POST IF YOU KNOW HOW) but pig latin becomes 'igpin
- atinlay' ...
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- I'm not sure what dog latin refers to
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- Simon
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