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Pig Latin
« Thread Started on Mar 28, 2008, 9:42am »

Hey Guys. I'm wondering if anyone really knows about Pig Latin. What are the rules? How do you do it? If no one knows, I'll look it up

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Re: Pig Latin
« Reply #1 on Mar 29, 2008, 12:21pm »

oh I've never heard of such a thing :S so it's an english language game.
it would be really fun if we could play it, or first learn it together.
check this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_Latin for people like me who haven't heard of this game.
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Re: Pig Latin
« Reply #2 on Mar 29, 2008, 1:35pm »

Thanks Huds. Ok, lets learn, then play. Heres what Wikipedia says (thanks Huda

).. thank god for Wikipedia!:

The usual rules for changing standard English into Pig Latin are:

For words that begin with consonant sounds, move the initial consonant or consonant cluster to the end of the word and add "ay." Examples:

button -> uttonbay
dough -> oughday
happy -> appyhay
loser -> oserlay
question -> estionquay
star -> arstay
three -> eethray
trash -> ashtray

For words that begin with vowel sounds (including silent consonants), simply add the syllable "way" to the end of the word. Examples:

Amsterdam -> Amsterdam-way
eagle -> eagle-way
hour -> hour-way
orange -> orange-way

The most common variation in Pig Latin is to replace the "way" in the second rule with other suffixes such as "ay", "yay", or "hay"; thus, "eagle" ¨ eagle-ay, eagle-yay, or eagle-hay, depending on the rules. However,the most common among these is "way".

Another variation is to take only the first letter and put it at the end, and add -ay, so "they" becomes "heytay", rather than "eythay".

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Re: Pig Latin
« Reply #3 on Mar 30, 2008, 12:39pm »

Hey that sounds FUN!

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Re: Pig Latin
« Reply #4 on Apr 2, 2008, 2:31am »

you're welcome.
so let's start practicing...
what should we start with first, words that start with a vowel or a consonant?

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Re: Pig Latin
« Reply #5 on Apr 5, 2008, 3:53am »

excuse my ignorance people but why are we messing up english words?!! :-[

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Re: Pig Latin
« Reply #6 on Apr 6, 2008, 5:21pm »

Hehe, well I guess it's supposed to be fun

I'll create a seperate English Board, so we can stray away from messing with them.

Okay... lets start guys

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Re: Pig Latin
« Reply #7 on Apr 10, 2008, 6:10am »

I think we should start with the easiest, words starting with vowels, because you don't change anything just adding way at the end, what do you think? should we start?
but please members do read the rules and particpate..

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