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October 23, 2009 |
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Atin-lay Ig-pay
FOUND by Robert Keim
in Upstate NY
A friend found this in the hallway and knew I'd get a huge kick out of it. They were right!
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
It took me a while to figure out how to read it, and I still have trouble reading the main body ot he message, but the P.S. says
"tell him to stop being mean to me" :-)
Pig Latin makes a MUCH better aural than written code - except when it's done inconsistently as Ashlee does here. I love this attempt at secrecy!
Is Pig Latin the same as Carney Talk? No, I guess not. Carney Talk is full of zzzzzzzzzzs. Which I am also full of, after finally uncovering today's finds. I'm going back to bed. See ya tomorrow.
Igpay Atinlay ulesray! (Well, it does when you first learn it anyway. One of the problems with it, though, was that pretty much everyone learned it at the same time so there wasn't much of a cloak of secrecy provided by it.)
And, the library catalogs of the world reveal the following:
"Pamphlet on the four basic dialects of Pig Latin" by Cyclops Stonebone. Los Angeles: [Cheney], 1950. (23 pages; 'author' is pseudonym for William Murray Cheney, 1907-????)
and
"Fleecestreet's improved Pig Latin grammar for modern scholars" adapted from Cyclops Stonebone's Four basic dialects of Pig Latin by Jason Augustus Fleecestreet [pseud.] Los Angeles: Press in the Gatehouse: [to be sold by Dawson's Book Shop], 1963. (32 pages; only 200 copies printed)
and
"Latin for pigs: an illustrated history from Oedipork Rex to Hog & Das" [by] Lisa Angowski Rogak and Virginia Blackert; illustrated by Harry Trumbore. New York: Dutton, c1994. (86 pages, illustrated)
Here's my best interpretation...
"I do like Jeff. If he likes me, he can tell me himself. Tell him to [put] a note in locker 194."
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Ah, now I understand. This is apparently a common language game in English (I'm not a native... d'oh!)
I failed Pig Latin in school.
Dr. Frederick Fronkenshteen: HE'S GOT A ROTTEN
BRAIN! IT'S ROTTEN, I TELL YA! ROTTEN!
The Monster: RAAAAAAAA!
Igor: Ixnay on the ottenray!
Ladies and gentlemen,...
..mesdames et messieurs,...
..Damen und Herren,...
..from what was once
an inarticulate mass of lifeless tissues,...
..may I now present
a cultured, sophisticated...
..man about town!
Hit it!
Why is "being" in the PS the ONLY non piglatinized word? Oh- and Ashlee.
When I learned Pig Latin, the words beginning with vowels got a "yay" at the end. Also stop wouldn't have been top-say, but rather op-stay, and most multi-syllabic words were piglatinized on each syllable: himself= im-hay elf-say. (trying to remember.. I think two- syllable words just got the treatment at the end, not on both syllables..? rusted= usted-ray.)
Eusta, what does a Find have to possess to stimulate you?
YO, Roberrrt! You've definitely achieved some sort of... super duper rank at Found.
Oay nvidusiay rratumeay, ilisbay nfansiay
urcay ostday phphetaeay, day ptusay ognitatumcay oronacay
eliquumray steiay onnay?
Inay amecnay, Inay awnay, Inay onquereday.
@yourWhat?: I've been in a funkish stew for the past couple days, sorry. I realize that crabbing about being bored is as rude as yawning like a hippo. (I was going to say something about a vibrator, but never mind.)
I like finds you can pull a story out of. The only story here is Ashlee can't figure out her own name in Pig-Latin.
I mostly come to Found for the comments & the characters. Even if the find is a dud, somebody usually comes up with something that'll jumpstart the fun.
For your Friday afternoon enjoyment.
English (and any other Roman scripted language) to Pig Latin:
http://www.onlineconversion.com/pig_latin.htm
and Pig Latin to English:
http://piglatin.bavetta.com/
Thanks, HPD: I was wracking my brain trying to remember what movie that hilarious line was from.
:)
@ Your what? - that is exactly what I was thinking.. The way you explained is the way I learned it too. The other one we used to do was "double dutch"..anyone remember that one?
double doutch was like: Turkey was Ty-bur-ka-be.
@Erin in Therapy: That sounds a lot harder...
I never got much into Pig Latin, but I did speak fluent Ubbi-Dubbi, from the original 70s ZOOM:
http://www.ehow.com/how_2365114_speak-ubbi-dub
I like musclebears.
I used to really hate conjugating Pig Latin verbs at school.
Interesting, I had thought it was locker 1941, but now it looks like 194 with two exclamation points that are sort of stacked on top of each other. With this unclear locker number, Ashlee may have sent poor Jeff to the wrong place!
A couple years ago my little brother and his friends "invented" something they called "Ag latin". I found the syntax to be slightly more rudimentary than traditional pig latin... but completely annoying nonetheless. "Dago yagou knagow whagat Agi'm sagayaging?"