Re: Pig Latin rules?

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.
Pig Latin? Never heard of it, but in the lower class jargon of Berne
(Switzerland), the same kind of language game was known. That jargon has a
strange name: _Mattenänglisch_ ['mat:@"n&N:lIS] 'meadow English', which is
said to be a misunderstanding of _Mattenängisch_ ['mat:@'n&N:IS] 'meadow
narrow-ic'. That jargon isn't spoken any more, and neither is that language
game.

It works just like pig Latin, only that you place an [i] in front of the
word and an [E:] at the end, e.g.:

Gib ere ne Muntsch uf d Schnurre ['gIb @r@ n@ 'mUntS uf 't SnUr@] 'give her
a kiss on the mouth'

-->

yberegee nen yntschmee uf d yreschnee ['ib@r@ge: n@'n intSme: uf t 'ir@Sne:]


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On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 11:21:46 -0400, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:

>Another favorite mangling algorithm is "insert syllable X before each
>vowel sound".
A similar one is much used in German speaking Switzerland (or at least in
Berne): Repeat each vowel three times but put _n_ and _f_ inbetween:

Du bisch e blödi Chue [dU 'bIS @ 'bl9:di xu@] 'you are a silly cow'

-->

[dUnU'fU bInI'fIS @n@'f@ bl9n9'f9dini'fi xunu'fu@]



Language games are fun. I've heard that there are people how can speak
fluently backwards.

g_0ry@_ˆs:
j. 'mach' wust

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