Appyhay Ridayfay!

Friday is upon us once again. Yipee!

Have you ever had one of those really long weeks that leaves you feeling a little…..well…..a little like this?…..

I don’t know what you’re like at the end of the week, but this is pretty much my brain by 5:00pm on Fridays…

All videos are the production of SMP Films; I found them on YouTube.

Pig Latin:
• an English language game, where the initial consonant sound of an English word is placed at the end and an ay is affixed

• reference to the Latin is a deliberate misnomer, used only for its English connotations as a ‘strange and foreign-sounding language’

• In Britain this term more often applies to the type of backslang used by the criminals of 19th century London

• Benjamin Franklin was known to use a version of Pig Latin in some of his publications.

• a variety of Pig Latin called Mattenenglisch was used in the Matte, the traditional working class neighborhood.

• Venezuela uses a variant, where the nonsensical word “cuti” is inserted before every single syllable. This was most recently used in a 2005 television advertisement for Digital cell phones, which had an off-screen voice saying,

“cuti-Ha cuti-bla cuti-has cuti-ta cuti-por cuti-los cuti-co cuti-dos. ¡cuti-Por cuti-só cuti-lo cuti-cien cuti-to cuti-cin cuti-cuen cuti-ta cuti-mil cuti-Bo cuti-lí cuti-va cuti-res!”

The screen, by the time the voice had finished, displayed the full decoded message: “Habla hasta por los codos. ¡Por sólo ciento cincuenta mil Bolívares!” (Talk all you want. For only one-hundred fifty thousand Bolívares!)

More at Pig Latin – Wikipedia.com

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