Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 19, 2018

And I thought Pig Latin was dead language used only by people in the bacon industry.

You can’t buy an education like that just anywhere.

In the year 1245, colonies of pigs were discovered in the outlying areas of the Holy Roman Empire who still spoke Latin. Naturally they were considered a Holy Roman delicacy. Pig Latin only survives today in rudimentary forms, eg “igPay atinLay”.

Fluent, effortless Pig Latin is not easy to speak or to understand at a normal conversational pace.

I hope Alex still retains this ability today.

Zonker, you can file for unemployment.

If you think Pig Latin is hard, try this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0niyTcxeqs

I wanted to see the upshot of the evious-pray ituation-say!

In 1965 Kellogg’s used Pig Latin to promote its mysterious new cereal: Crispy and elicious-day / For breakfast and for acking-snay / Made with real fruit avor-flay / uit-Fray oops-Lay.

I taught my niece (about 8-yo) and her friend Pig Latin on a long drive. They had fun with it a bit, and then she suddenly made the connection with the “Monsters, Inc.” movie, where the Mike the one-eyed monster said something like, “Ide-hay the id-kay”. Now she got the line. But how many times had she watched it to even remember that?