A Conversation for Pig Latin
Abberwockyjay
Seb Started conversation Mar 17, 2003
The poem, of course, for those of you not familiar (well, there must be *one*) with Carrol's work, (or Pig Latin) is Jabberwocky. Now flame me for stating the blindingly obvious.
Abberwockyjay
Seb Posted Mar 20, 2003
Sorry about this. I didn't check the other conversations hereabouts.
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Mr. Dreadful - But really I'm not actually your friend, but I am... Posted Dec 8, 2004
Wow... aren't you big and clever.
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axe_slingin_doug Posted Dec 21, 2004
Does anyone know why pig latin is called pig latin?
Abberwockyjay
Miss Cherry13 Posted Jan 10, 2009
This tye of word play was well known in Shakespear's time...
In Love Labour's Lost (act V, scene 1) there is the following exchange
Costard: Go to; thou hast it ad dungill, at the fingers' ends, as they say.
Holofernes: O, I smell false Latine; dunghill for unguem.
This gave it the name of false latin, by the 18th C this had become 'Dog Latin' and soon after 'Dog Greek'. In 1844 Edgar Allen Poe used the term 'Pig Greek'.
Children developed their own secret code which by 1866 was called 'Hog Latin' and the term 'Pig Latin' appeared in the same decade.
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