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- From: rjh27@cl.cam.ac.uk (R.J. Hindle)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
- Subject: Re: Strata annotation
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.210128.11753@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 21:01:28 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.121702.24736@wega.rz.uni-ulm.de> <leo.721992233@galaxy> <41153@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
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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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- Pig latin is easy (at least the version I knew is) - all you do is take
- the first consonant sound, like 'p' in 'pig', or 'st' in 'stop', off the
- front of a word, say the rest of the word, then the removed consonant sound,
- then 'ay'... unless there's no consonant - then you just stick 'ay' on the
- end. Sounds complicated I know, but it's not -
- 'pig latin is easy (at least the version I knew is)'
- becomes
- 'igpay atinlay isay easyay (atay eastlay uhthay ersionvay Iay ewnyay isay)'
- ...with liberties taken with spelling. A variant is to leave words like 'I'
- and 'at' as they are.
-
- (Another language - 'just put 'ag' before each vowel'
- becomes 'jagust pagut 'agag' bagifagore ageach vagowagel'
- where 'ag' rhymes with 'plague')
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