Re: Pig Latin rules?

 --- "J. 'Mach' Wust" <j_mach_wust@...> wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 15:13:37 +0200, Carsten Becker
> <naranoieati@...> wrote:
>
> >Because the other question does not go too well
> with this one, a second
> >mail: What are the rules of Pig Latin? I only
> remember you put the first
> >consonant to the end and add an "-ay", but this
> can't be everything, the
> >words then would all sound the same.
No, no more so then they currently do. There's an
additional rule along the lines of: If a word begins
in a vowel, then add -way to the end. This of course
means that words distinguished only between initial w-
vs 0- become homonyms but that's not a significant
difference...

e.g.: onay, onay oremay osay enthay aythay urrentlycay
ooday. Erethay isway anway additionalway oolray
alongway ethay ineslay ofway: ...

(I'm not fluent in Pig Latin, so I don't know for
certain.) (Sorry if someone's already responded
helpfully, I'm apparently missing a few emails...)

...

> Language games are fun. I've heard that there are
> people how can speak
> fluently backwards.
Well of course they can! Everyone in the southern
hemisphere speaks backwards, because otherwise it
would sound backwards, what with the
relatively-backwards-goingness of everything else
here. (Relatedly, there's great big servers on the
equator that reverse the content of everything going
through them.)

(Creating & spreading unbelieveable rumors is more fun
than language games.)

--
Tristan.

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