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What is Larry saying in Pig Latin?
Dog Hambone:
--- Quote from: FineBari3 on February 14, 2009, 03:33:36 PM ---Just out of curiosity, any of the 'youngins' on the board even know what Pig Latin is? Is it still used?
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I recall Pig Latin had a mini-revival of sorts a few years back when Sadam Hussein's two sons (Uday & Qusay, or something similar) were killed. There was even a thread at this site where some of us were calling them things like Ixnay and Amscray, and I saw an editorial page cartoon around that time where a guy remarked that Uday & Qusay were "ead-day" (i.e., dead).
Lefty:
--- Quote from: Dog Hambone on April 04, 2009, 06:52:01 PM ---I recall Pig Latin had a mini-revival of sorts a few years back when Sadam Hussein's two sons (Uday & Qusay, or something similar) were killed. There was even a thread at this site where some of us were calling them things like Ixnay and Amscray, and I saw an editorial page cartoon around that time where a guy remarked that Uday & Qusay were "ead-day" (i.e., dead).
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I thought that Saddam Hussein's (or So Damn Insane's) sons were Ootfray and Oopslay. (Many decades ago there was a Froot Loops commercial where they had to say the name of the cereal in Pig Latin.) This described those two diaperheads perfectly.
Desmond Of The Outer Sanctorum:
--- Quote from: xraffle on February 14, 2009, 07:23:28 PM ---The only exceptions are words like shirt, chair, etc. With those words, you move the first two letters of the word to end.
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And then there are words that start with vowels. You just add "-ay" to the end of those, right?
At-ay, on-ay, is-ay, obstetrician-ay...
Dog Hambone:
--- Quote from: Desmond Of The Outer Sanctorum on April 06, 2009, 11:19:44 AM ---And then there are words that start with vowels. You just add "-ay" to the end of those, right?
At-ay, on-ay, is-ay, obstetrician-ay...
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I'm not sure about that one. See xraffle's first post above; when Larry replied to Moe, he didn't use Pig Latin on the words that started with vowels. Also, in Three Little Pigskins, I recall Larry asking Lucille Ball "at-whay are ou-yay oing-day onight-tay?" (what are you doing tonight?). Apparently, Larry doesn't use Pig Latin on words that start with vowels. I don't know if there's a hard and fast rule on that one, though.
Dog Hambone:
Desmond,
You may be right. After I entered the last post, I checked Wikipedia, and here are their rules for Pig latin:
"The usual rules for changing standard English into Pig Latin are as follows:
In words that begin with consonant sounds, the initial consonant or consonant cluster is moved to the end of the word, and "ay" is added, as in the following examples:
beast → east-bay
dough → ough-day
happy → appy-hay
question → estion-quay
star → ar-stay
three → ee-thray
In words that begin with vowel sounds or silent consonants, the syllable "ay" is added to the end of the word. In some dialects, to aid in pronunciation, an extra consonant is added to the beginning of the suffix; for instance, eagle could yield eagle'yay, eagle'way, or eagle'hay.[citation needed]
Transcription varies. A hyphen or apostrophe is sometimes used to facilitate translation back into English. Ayspray, for instance, is ambiguous, but ay-spray means "spray" whereas ays-pray means "prays."
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