I never understood pig latin?

At one time, most students were all required to learn to speak Latin (the dead language of the Roman Empire). The majority of words in Latin sentences end in the dipthong /ae/, pronounced [ai].

That's how "Pig Latin" got its name because of the similar /-ay/ sound at the end of words ... But it's a misnomer because "Pig Latin" isn't a variety of Latin. Instead, it's playful English slang. Therefore, "Latin" only implies that it's an exotic strange [hard-to-understand] foreign language.

It's real simple to speak, and that's why it's something that young school children generally use on the recess field when they want to speak in a langauge they think adults or other people around don't know. Likewise, older people will sometimes use it to speak about sensitive subjects in the prescence of younger children. You have to have a good mastery of the English language and phonetics before you can comprehend what's said in Pig Latin. Usually such types of playful languages actually start out as a way to communicate secretly between members of a profession or group . . . normally this group is criminals who need to find ways to talk about their illegal activity (this was the case with Cockney Rhyming Slang).

Pig Latin doesn't take much to learn. All you do is drop the first consonant, then move it to the end of the word followed by the diphthong [ai], usually written /-ay/.

scram = amscray

computer = omputercay

laptop = aptoplay

If the words starts with a vowel, then you just place the ending "-way" or "-hay" or "-yay" at the end of the word, it doesn't really matter, all that matters is that you're consistent.

Amsterdam = Amsterdamway

eagle = eagleway

Most languages have similar slang games: for example French teens use something called "Verlan" where they reverse syllables (i.e. "femme" <girl> = "meuf"). Another English slang game is called "Butcher's Backslang" where people just say some words backwards: the = eht.

Some people in London who speak the Cockney dialect also use a rhyming slang (which I already briefly mentioned above) where they'll find a pair of rhyming words, then use a completely different word associated with the second rhyming pair.

The most famous example is using the word "apples" for "stairs" because of the rhyme between "stairs" / "apples & pears." So they'd say, "she went up the apples" instead of "she went upstairs." It's confusing for non-Cockney or non-British speakers because of the difference in cultural context for many of the words used in association (like the word "Leamington" for "car" because "car" rhymes with "spa" in UK English, and Lemmington Spa is a famous location. In most dialects of American English "car" & "spa" don't even rhyme). Google "Cockney rhyming slang" sometime to learn another exciting English slang game.

Visit the link below to learn more about Pig Latin.

My Name In Pig Latin

Whavagat avagabovuagout thivagis oveagon? (what about this one?) I have no idea how I learned it but I did haha The first answer is spot on for when it comes to pig latin

it seems like females are better at learning and speaking pig latin. THey always used to talk in pig latin at school so that the boys couldn't understand them.

I learned my name in pig latin eventually, but that was it.

The trick is to learn to say the words as quickly as in normal speaking. I was never able to do it, nor understand it, even if i learned the rules.

The rules are very easy though, as other's have pointed out.

It is what the Police spoke in Ancient Rome.

Avehay away oodgay ayday officerway! (Have a good day officer!)

Words that start with a vowel (A, E, I, O, U) simply have "WAY" appended to the end of the word.

Words that start with a consonant have all consonant letters up to the first vowel moved to the end of the word (as opposed to just the first consonant letter), and "AY" is appended. ('Y' is counted as a vowel in this context)

its easy follow this example.

Lets pick a word any word.

**Becca

all you do is take the first letter out and put it at the end

so you get

**eccab

one more steo

you add an -AY at the end

so you get

**eccabay

tada♥

in pig latin u just take a word and take the beginning letter off and add it plus "ay" to the end. short words stay the same usually

ex. taylor becomes alyertay

is oryay amenay eccabay?

you just take the first letter of the word and put it to the end of the word and add an -ay to it. except with 2 letter words you just say those and add -way to the end. so: our-Yay ame-nay is-way ecca-Bay means your name is Becca.

Maybe that's because you're not a pig.

you take the first sound off a word and add it on to the end and then add "ay". For example rex= xray , bed=edbay