Ana's been really sick since Friday or so.

[conuly]

She just started feeling better yesterday and today. So, after heading into Manhattan for the much delayed tetanus shot (and that was anti-climatic!), I bought her a book and a toy. (The book, The Dragon Machine, is so worth the $7 it cost.)

Anyway, I was discussing something having to do with toys with Jenn later, and Ana was listening, so I Pig-Latined it: "Oy-tays".

Oy-tays? Why did I do that? Why not "oys-tay"?

Hm.

So, what, exactly, are the rules of Pig Latin where you are? Do consonant clusters get split up (plit-say instead of it-splay)? How do you deal with vowels? Is it based on spelling (unique-ay) or sound (oonique-yay)? What about other, similar codes? Tell me! Please?

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[ladytalon.livejournal.com]

I would have said "oys-tay." And consonant clusters do not get split; "it-splay" is better. I learned that you just break at the vowel, and everything else remains the same. Only consonants travel. So it'd be "unique-ay." For words starting with "y," though, the y works as a consonant, so "you" becomes "oo-yay." (Spelled more phonetically, yeah, but it looks odd as "ou-yay.")

I spent a lot of time talking in Pig Latin, hee....

[conuly]

But unique, when you say it, starts with a consonant, not a vowel.

[ladytalon.livejournal.com]

I know, but I was big on spelling, and I recognized that words started with vowels even if they sounded like they started with consonants.

[conuly]

But they really start with consonants - we just can't spell properly :)

What about words like honor?

[ladytalon.livejournal.com]

Heh, daughter of an editor, trained to be an editor, spelling was an absolute for me. Especially when I was young enough to still think Pig Latin was the bomb.

Honor.. hm. My instinct is to say "honor-ay," because "onor-hay" is just ridiculous. But then again, it's not something that was likely to be turned into Pig Latin. Mostly I used it to talk about the neighbor kids who never figured it out. ^_^