My brother told me but I'm not sure. What's the difference?
2007-09-01 17:03:53 · 14 answers · asked by Kirkylee 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Latin's a real (and dying) language whereas Pig Latin is just a way of disguising regular English to make it look indecipherable to people who don't know Pig Latin.
See here this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_latin , and this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin for more details.
2007-09-01 17:09:26 · answer #1 · answered by HCB 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Latin is an ancient Indo-European language that was originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. Pig latin is a joke lanquage often used by kids spoken by taking the first letter of the word and putting it at the end of the word then adding an "ay" Example: the word soda would become odasay in pig latin.
2007-09-01 17:11:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Latin is a language with its own grammar and syntax. Pig-Latin is a game children play by arranging the sounds of English, thus it is a silly way of pronouncing another language, but it is not a language at all.
2007-09-02 14:11:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Latin is one of the classical languages, a basis for most others; English at least. Pig-latin is to speak English words with an "ay" (long a) sound at the end of every word. A sort of dumb code.
2007-09-01 17:11:28 · answer #4 · answered by LK 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Latin is several millenia old and is the basis for most of our modern languages.
Pig Latin is simply taking the first letter of each English word and putting it at the end of the word and adding the "ay" sound after it to emulate something that vaguely resembles the sound of Latin.
2007-09-01 17:10:15 · answer #5 · answered by tabulator32 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pig latin is modified words, and latin is the language that english is based off of.
2007-09-01 17:09:36 · answer #6 · answered by Kamina Squirtle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Latin is an acually language, where as, pig-latin is just a made up language based on english
2007-09-01 17:08:38 · answer #7 · answered by 525600 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The word "pig" ??!!
Seriously, here's the formula:
"1. Remove the preceding consonant(s) from the word and
put them at the end.
2. Add "-ay" to the end of the word.
Example:
Pig Latin = igpay atinlay"
2007-09-01 17:13:11 · answer #8 · answered by Adios 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
latin is an aincient language, but it was actually used everyday, as english is to us.
pig latin. is just an odd version of english where syllables are switched around. Why it's called that anyways, i have no idea
2007-09-01 17:13:17 · answer #9 · answered by Steve 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To speak pig-Latin just take the first letter of the word and put it at the end of the word. Ot-nay ard-hay o-tay o-day.
2007-09-01 17:11:05 · answer #10 · answered by San Diego Art Nut 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋