Re: VMs: Voynichese as an Abugida

[Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi John,

At 10:18 26/07/2004 -0600, John E Koontz wrote:
> For that matter, when did pig latin and such word games first appear?
> I've heard of people who could rattle off pig latin versions of English
> at conversational speeds.

Perhaps mid-18th Century England? Having said that, though this following 
link is referred to all across the Internet, nobody seems to have validated 
its claim at all.
http://www.anatomy.usyd.edu.au/danny/anthropology/anthro-l/archive/august-1995/0165.html

Pig Latin as a language game might be another research route to try (if 
you're interested):-
http://linguistlist.org/~ask-ling/archive-1997.10/msg01890.html

FWIW, I think that at least some of these word games originated in Florence 
in the first part of the Quattrocento... but that's another story. :-)

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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