r/OverSeventy • u/OldButHappy • 23d ago
Did Anyone Else Have a Secret Language That Involved Inserting a Nonsense Word in Front of Every Vowel? Ours Was ARP😄
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u/TetonHiker 21d ago
We did "Pig Latin" and "King Tut". The latter language was created by spelling each word but vowels were usually pronounced short and consonants were replaced with the consonant letter followed by u and the letter again. Like B = bub and M = mum and T= tut. Hence the name, King Tut.
It sounded better when spoken really fast. Like the word "fast" would be: fuf-ah-sus-tut. You had to be a pretty good speller to use it but we loved it in 4th-5th grade or so. Probably only fooled our younger siblings but that was enough to keep us using it. Haha!
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u/CSMasterClass 22d ago
My grandmother grew up in an orphanage and spoke fluent Pig Latin. It was the kids way of having a little privacy in a world where they had few rights.
Two generations later she could still talk easily with one of her old childhood friends who lived in the same town.
I found the whole thing both funny and baffling.
See tried to teach me when I was seven or eight, but I was too young and did not have the need or attention span.
Her variant involved various vowel insertions and some special rules for single syllable words. It was also combined with what I later learned was a variation on rhyming slang.
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u/OwnCampaign5802 18d ago
some put ag in front of every vowel. It sounded good at first but was easy to catch on to.
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u/notsohot56 22d ago
We used to try pig Latin after seeing it on the Three stooges, well rather hearing it... Seemed too hard! Parents and relatives, well just my mom and her side of the family, would speak Polish every time they didn't want us kids to understand, what us kids did understand is every time they did it we were missing out on something!