dog latin

Dog latin - Dog Latin or cod Latin is a phrase or jargon that imitates Latin,often by "translating" English words (or those of other languages) into Latin by conjugating or declining them as if they were Latin words. Dog Latin is usually a humorous device mocking scholarly seriousness. It can also mean a poor-quality attempt at writing genuine Latin. Also see cockney rhyme slang Example, apples and pears = stairs Army & navy = gravey Bubble & Squeek = Greek Brown bread = dead Trouble and strife = wife Boat race = face Baked bean = queen Bottle & stopper = copper On the floor = poor Oily rag = fag ( cigarette) Septic tank = yank Unlike the similarly-named language game Pig Latin (a form of spoken code popular among young children), Dog Latin is more of a humorous device for invoking scholarly seriousness, especially when creatively used in nomenclature and naming convention