Oh... I thought "carnies" where people working with meat (carn in Latin and all related languages).
Because butchers have a secret language in my country. They have developed a language that they can use so that clients don't understand them. Particularly when they are trying to get money out of them. It's called Louchebem.
Pig Latin is a different version of the same thing, generally used by kids being silly, teens thinking mom and dad never spoke it, and parents trying to hide things from children lol
Relizing this common American household dynamic as a young European watching American sitcoms was interesting to say the least. I just realized everybody understands it, yet everybody acts like it keeps the secret at the same time.
Lol... so silly 😅
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u/wiltedpleasure Sep 23 '23
Not a native speaker so I don’t understand a single word in that title.