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Pig Latin (Igpay Atinlay) is a language game, argot, or cant in which words in English are altered, usually by adding a fabricated suffix or by moving the onset or initial consonant or consonant cluster of a word to the end of the word and adding a vocalic syllable (usually -ay or /eɪ/) to create such a suffix. [1]
She and her friend Louise "spent tedious hours teaching ourselves the Tut language. You (yak oh you) know (kack nug oh wug) what (wack hash a tut). Since all the other children spoke Pig Latin, we were superior because Tut was hard to speak and even harder to understand. At last I began to understand what girls giggled about.
Finnish counterpart of Pig Latin. This game is also called siansaksa ('Pig German'), which is a common expression for unintelligible gibberish. Finnish: A-Kieli (A-language) Replace every vowel with the vowel "a". For example: "Mitä sä teet" becomes "Mata sa taat" French: Louchébem
Pig Latin is a linguistic game that makes use of the English language. Pig Latin may also refer to: Pig Latin, the programming language used by Apache Pig "Pig Latin", a song by Baboon on the album Something Good Is Going to Happen to You
An argot (English: / ˈ ɑːr ɡ oʊ /; from French argot 'slang') is a language used by various groups to prevent outsiders from understanding their conversations. The term argot is also used to refer to the informal specialized vocabulary from a particular field of study, occupation, or hobby, in which sense it overlaps with jargon.
Ubbi Dubbi has also been popularized as the signature speech pattern of the cartoon character Mushmouth from the animated series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, voiced by Bill Cosby. Cosby also used this speech variation in his "Dentist" monologue to illustrate the effects of a dose of Novocaine.
Some of it was simply not cited or verifiable (the statement that "Pig Latin" in British refers to back slang, and the statement that Ben Franklin used Pig Latin), and for some the reference cited was not enough (the statement that "Pig Latin" is another term for Butcher's Back Slang is not supported in the reference that was given--that ...
Gibberish (sometimes Jibberish or Geta [1]) is a language game that is played in the United States and Canada by adding "idig" to the beginning of each syllable of spoken words.