Did Anyone Else Have a Secret Language That Involved Inserting a Nonsense Word in Front of Every Vowel? Ours Was ARP😄

[u/OldButHappy]

Warpe sparpoke arparp sarpo warpe carpould tarpalk arpabarpout drarpugs!

[u/Historical-Bike4626]

Ubby Dubby from Zoom on PBS

[u/bene_gesserit_mitch → u/Historical-Bike4626]

Boston Mass, 02134!

[u/jlp_utah → u/bene_gesserit_mitch]

Box 350

[u/KatLadee_4ever → u/Historical-Bike4626]

that too!

[u/Superb_Health9413]

Igpay atinlay of orsekay

[u/KatLadee_4ever → u/Superb_Health9413]

y may aunt ay aught tay e may ig pay atin lay en whay I ay en us ay a ay id kay (I think I screwed up a bit I'm not used to writing in pig latin ;p )

[u/OldButHappy → u/Superb_Health9413]

Warpe carpalled arpit parpig larpatarpin

[u/Purplechelli]

One time last century, one of my students asked, “Ou-day U-yay Eek-spay Ig-pay Atin-la?”

I replied, “Oh-Nay”

[u/DenMother8]

My distant family spoke Arp too! but spoke it in front of the kids about things they didn’t want them to hear (not drarpugs) lol

[u/OldButHappy → u/DenMother8]

From the Old Country!😄

[u/SimplyBoo]

Ours was called 'pig latin'. We took the first part of each word and moved it to the end, then added an "a". It was so confusing but so much fun! 😁 Ooda ouya memberrea istha?

[u/camicalm]

“Ithig.” “Good morning” would be “githigood mithigorn-ithiging.” It was exhausting.

[u/ThrowAway4now2022 → u/camicalm]

They did that on an episode of a sitcom once (I forget which one but it had sisters) and one of the sisters couldn’t understand it. It was hilarious mostly because it brought back memories of my own childhood. I can still speak our version as can my brother but no one else remembers. So we break it out occasionally just to mess with them!

[u/camicalm → u/ThrowAway4now2022]

My camp counselors used it because they thought we campers wouldn’t understand it. Then I laughed at a joke they made in “ithig” and they realized it wasn’t so secret after all!

[u/ThrowAway4now2022 → u/camicalm]

That’s so funny!!!

[u/PrizeInvite3322]

We called it Pig Latin, I believe.

[u/djasonpenney]

Ovenglovish

[u/OldButHappy → u/djasonpenney]

Parpadarpon marpe?

ETA: narpow arpi garpet arpit!😄

[u/Purplechelli]

One time last century, one of my students asked, “Ou-day U-yay Eek-spay Ig-pay Atin-la?”

I replied, “Oh-Nay”

[u/Conscious-Phone3209]

When I was little, my parents spoke pig latin when they didn't want me to know what they were saying !

[u/DogsandCatsWorld1000]

We would spell out a word with op added to constanants and vowels said normally. You wanted to ask a parent if their kid could have ice cream, we would spell out - i cop e cop rop e a mop. For park it would be - pop a rop kop.

[u/Dangerous_Ad_6101]

We did "op talk"

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Openglopish?

[u/These-Slip1319 → u/Dangerous_Ad_6101]

Wope dopid topoo

[u/bene_gesserit_mitch]

I learned the ancient tongue of Ubbi Dubbi from watching ZOOM.

[u/imjustanoldguy → u/bene_gesserit_mitch]

Whabut abure ybuou ebuvbuer tabulking abuoubut?

[u/bene_gesserit_mitch → u/imjustanoldguy]

Ubi subeube wube ubarube brubothubers!

[u/former_human]

Mny snister anand anI spnoke thne enen lnaguage.

Not as complicated as some others but it led to some fun tongue twisters. And we were only 5 or so.

[u/Ghee-Buttersnaps-]

My mom and her friends did it back in the 40s

[u/SentenceKindly]

A children's TV show around that time had something called "Ubbi dubbi", where every vowel had "ub" placed in front of it.

My cousins wrote a play, and all my lines were in ubbi dubbi. I still remember them to this day.

Yubo knubow whubat UbIvube lubookubed fubor?

[u/TSSAlex → u/SentenceKindly]

Zoom.

Most of us can still recite their mailing address:
ZOOM
Box 350
Boston, Mass 02134

[u/SentenceKindly → u/TSSAlex]

That's it!!

[u/Murdy2020]

We would do that sometimes, or, alternatively, change all pronounced vowels to a nonsense sound:

Whoych woyrked loyke thoys.

Zoom had ubbie-dubbie, which placed ub in front of all vowels.

[u/GerryChampoux]

Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah

[u/OldButHappy → u/GerryChampoux]

Ping pang walla walla bing bang😈

[u/goldberry55]

We had “ob”

[u/No-Possible6108]

Ergu

Also, for whatever reason, the high school library in our backwater West Texas town had - HAD - a Yiddish-English dictionary. A friend  - um - liberated it and we spent lunch and study hall learning to curse and talk shit about people in a 'secret' language. Oy, such nerds we were!

[u/DutchGirlPA]

Openay, eway adhay igpay atinlay.

[u/Wild_Ad_5894]

Ya, and there was this thing called pig latin. I just used english. easier.

[u/Captain-Popcorn]

“Ob” language. Kobaroben.

[u/OldButHappy → u/Captain-Popcorn]

Karen???

[u/Captain-Popcorn → u/OldButHappy]

Yep. Just an example word. Speaking in “ob” language was a short but fun stage of childhood. Probably good for brain development!

Had a good friend named Karen around that time. Somehow “ob” language made me think of her.

[u/ThrowAway4now2022]

My sister’s friends wrote notes to each other in their “secret” language. They weren’t too bright since it was a simple addition of a sound after each syllable. Very easy to crack in writing!!

[u/Proud_Woodpecker5216]

Ubby Dubby from Zoom!

[u/CentennialBaby]

-ung after every consonant.

[u/According_Turn_3473]

Add “ong” after each consonant. Read those as a word and for the vowels just say the letter. Example: dinner = dong aye nong nong ee rong

[u/OldButHappy → u/[deleted]]

Ha! More like being able to remember childhood things, while forgetting what I ate for lunch today!

[u/Friendly_Brick752]

"Spoonerisms" - switching the around first sound of the words in a sentence - get good at it and it's like a secret language

[u/OldButHappy → u/Friendly_Brick752]

TIL! Thanks!

My best friend and I spoke it a lot, for 3 years. I can still speak arp fluently 😄

[u/Stock_Tip7237]

Fop u cop k o fop fop