Re: CHAT: Hello

I think my first exposure was to Ubby Dubby, on the north american
educational television program "Zoom".  It's a simple insertion code -
putting an "ub" /Vb/ in front of each syllable nucleus:

Ubbi thubbink mubby fubbirst ubbexpubbosyubber wubbas tubboo
Ubbubbubby Dubbubbubby, ubbon thubbe nubborth ubbamubberubbicubban
ubbedjubbucubbashubbunubbal tubbelubbevubbizhubbin prubbogrubbam
"Zubboom".

It's awkward to type, but easy to speak.  I became quite fluent.  And
it translates readily into Bill Cosby's Dum-Donaldese by simply
replacing the /V/ with a preduplication of the following vowel:
Abband ibbit trabbanslaybates rebbedibbileeby ibbintubu Bibbill
Cobbosbeeby's Dubbum Dobbonabbaldeebese byby sibbimpleeby
reebyplaybacing theebee /VbV/ wibbith ubba preebedooblibbicaybashubbun
ubbuv theeby fobbolloboweebing vowbowel.

I don't know exactly how old I was.  Perhaps 8 (31 years ago).

On 11/22/07, Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:
> --- R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
>
> > Hi - a belated welcome aboard!
> >
> > Joshua E. Horn wrote:
> > > Hey!
> > >
> > > Thanks for the welcome!
> > >
> > > Cool to meet other people my age intrested in this stuff! - when did you
> > > first start messing around with constructed languages?
> >
> > When I was 10 - 58 years ago.
> >
> > --
> > Ray
>
> When I was about 7, 55 years ago my sister and I discovered Pig Latin, and
> went
> on to invent Igpaya Ussionruski (Pig Russian) based on the same idea, but
> with
> many different suffixes other than the simple "-ay" of Pig Latin.
>
> --gary
>

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>