Re: Pig Latin

--- John Leland <Lelandconlang@...> wrote:

> Another interesting language of this sort is the
> French louchebeme (there
> should be accents on the first and second e's).  It
> is said to have been invented
> by Parisian butchers and taken up by criminals, but
> to be out of date before
> the time of the story in which I discovered it (E.C.
> Bentley's "The
> Old-fashioned Apache" in the book Trent Intervenes,
> first U.S. edition 1938, though I
> believe the original British magazine publication
> was considerably earlier.). It
> issaid to work by taking the first letter of the
> word, putting it on the end,
> putting an l at the beginning and adding "-eme" at
> the end. Silent letters
> are dropped. Thus boucher > oucheb > loucheb >
> louchebeme. I wonder if our
> French members know more about this language?
> John Leland
Yes, I heard about that, but I guess it's dead by now.
Never heard anybody use it, only read about it in
books.

Another, slightly more alive, dialect, is "javanais"
(Javanese). Rather easy, you just add -av- wherever
inside a word. Parler > parlaver, Nabuchodonosor >
Navabavuchodavonosavor. You can find some "Javanese"
words here and there in some detective novels, among
them the San Antonio ones (Frederic Dard) (or
Fredaveravic Davard?).

'Verlan' is much more alive (reversing the order of
the syllables). You often hear for ex "un tarpe'" for
"un pe'tard" (a haschish joint), "une meuf" for "une
femme" (a woman, a girl), "t'es ouf" for "t'es fou"
(you're crazy), etc.





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Philippe Caquant

"High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs)


	
		
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