Re: Cants

Tristan McLeay
>
> * Meat pies are a specific kind of pies. Basically, they take the meat
>   that's left over after they've made the sausages, mince mean, dogfood
>   etc., mix it in with something they pass off as gravy, and shove it into
>   a pie. They serve one person. There's also party pies, which are a
>   similar idea except they're much smaller.
>
>   I have nothing against a pie whose main ingredient happens to be mince
>   meat.

In the United States, "mince meat pies" contain no meat.
They are made with raisins rather than meat. (So they taste
very good. To me, meat and pie crust just don't go together.)


> Well, there's always pig latin (or igpay atinlay), where you take the
> first letter of the word (or consonant cluster perhaps), shove it at the
> end, and add ay. Something funny happens with words that begins with
> vowels too.

To form words in Pig Latin, if an English word begins with a vowel,
the syllable "way" is appended. Otherwise, the initial consonant or
consonant cluster is moved to the end and "ay" is appended.

To be or not to be = Otay ebay orway otnay otay ebay.

Hallmark published a great parody of the chanting craze of a
few years ago. It was called "Grunt -- Pigorian Chant."  It is
about the pigs of Snouto Domoinko de Silo. In the book and
on the CD, the farmer and other animals chant in Latin, but
the pigs chant in Pig Latin.

Ducks: Venite, venite. Cadit pluvia, terra inundatur.
Pigs: Ud-may, onderous-way ud-may. Ook-lay out-way,
     ere-hay e-way ome-cay!

--Ph. D.

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