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Man uses pig-latin to organize his gang

» Comedy Gold: A 29-year-old man in Sydney, Australia was taped using a code language to organize his buddies into "reprisal gangs" the day after rioting.

"Ring up a few boys - bring 'ankshays' and 'atbays'," he is recorded as saying. [...]
The police statement explains that Pig Latin moves the first consonantal sound of a word to its end and then adding "ay", turning "shanks" into "ankshays" and "bats" into "atbays."

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 [ 08.23.07 ]


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This has caused some discussion here. Quite a few people thought that pig Latin was a code confined to elite schoolboys - it turns out that it is the patois of the street, commonly used in prisons ans remand centres. Whooda thunk it?



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