Sorry, you -are- the only one with that fetish

This site is a list of famous left-handed people. Written in pig latin.

I actually was looking up pig latin while researching my paper. Linguists like "code languages" because they give insight into things like syllabification, and where phonological rules apply. I once attended a talk about 'muh'- infixation, as in what Homer Simpson does (saxamaphone).

What I was hoping to find, though, was information about ayb/aib-language, which is apparantly another English play language. You insert 'ayb' (I'm assuming it rhymes with imbibe, or scribe, but it's hard to tell when the author doesn't use IPA) before the vowel of every syllable. So,
Canada = kibe-a-nibe-uh-dibe-uh
and
artificiality = ibe-art-ibe-if-ibe-ish-ibe-i-ibe-uh-libe-it-ibe-y
I've never heard of this language. Has anyone? I find it weird that the stressed vowels of the original word remain, like in Canada, I would want to say kibe-uh-nibe etc, but apparantly it's kibe-a-nibe etc. Maybe it's to preserve intelligibility.

Posted by Mariana on May 1, 2004 with category tags of

3 comments
Interesting free dictionary article with a good list of examples, though I take offense to its name.
   comment by Mariana (#35) on May 1, 2004

I think in grade school some kids (not me) tried to be cool and elitist by using the same kind of language except using -op. i.e. Canada = Cop a nop a dop a. Or something like that. I could never figure out what they were blabbering on about.
   comment by dustin (#1) on May 3, 2004

They use a language similar to that in Slums of Beverly Hills. I don't remember exactly how it goes. It's crazy to listen too, but hilarious. I love that movie! (I also love Natasha Lyonne...sweet, sweet, Natasha Lyonne)
   comment by alice (#60) on May 4, 2004

   

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