A G language

John C.

I am 50 and at a recent family Christmas party my sister suddenly went in to A G language when she wanted to say something to me without her husband or children understanding. We used to use this language a lot in the 70s, does anyone else know it.

The way it works is you simply put ag after the first letter of each syllable
So
bike become bagike

I love my shimano groupset becomes agI lagove magy Shagimaganago gragoupsaget

well you get the jist.

I don't think it was something my father made up but he was daft enough to and I'd love to know if anybody else knows about this.

I know I should have kept quite, the men in white coats are on the way.

Ben6899

Haha, brilliant.

I consider myself pretty clever, but I don't think I could think quickly enough on my feet to speak in this language you call AG!

I'm pretty sure your sister's husband and kids didn't cotton on to what she told you!

softlad

wouldn't it be easier to just whisper..??

mmitchell88

I remember there was a novel we studied at school years ago where the children did something very similar - it was called 'eggy peggy' but worked pretty much as you describe it. I may google it in a moment to see if the name of the book comes up.

Anyway, one of the exercises we were set within the class after reading the book was to come up with a version of our own 'eggy peggy' language. Me and my mates came up with....'unty wunty'. How sweet, the teacher thought, until she heard us inserting 'unt' after the first letter of each word beginning with 'c'....

We must have been about 13. :oops:

snakehips

I like Shagimaganago !

I think there are many such transposition languages .......... see Pig Latin

Akesnay

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nwallace

I recently discovered Egg language, apparently common amongst kids in Dundee, but even come across pig Latin in St Andrews.

markyboy2005

Yip, I used to use that language with my sister in Glasgow in the 70's/80's. There was another one called the i language - you took the first letter of a word added it to the end of the word and added i......i oveli ymi ikebi......

What a memory, I think I will call my sister tonight.....

bobtbuilder

I know Pig Latin, but never heard of your AG speak.

term1te

markyboy2005 wrote:

Yip, I used to use that language with my sister in Glasgow in the 70's/80's. There was another one called the i language - you took the first letter of a word added it to the end of the word and added i......i oveli ymi ikebi......

What a memory, I think I will call my sister tonight.....

This could be the roots of Schwyzertütsch, or Swiss German, where it seems the end of every word is truncated and replaced with an upward inflected "i". The aim of this is the same as Eggy Peggy, to make it completely incomprehensible to outsiders.

There were a couple of children at my school who claimed to be able to speak to each other backwards. Apart from a couple of words probably gleaned from Black Sabbath albums, I'm pretty sure they were just making it up.

John C.

Glad to find out I'm not just making this up, thinking back it was more a case of AG before the first noun of each word, pretty much the same really but makes more sence if the word starts with a double consonant.
I like the sound of the i language but it sounds a lot harder to speak or understand.
I was surprised how easily we droped back into AG, it'll be interesting to see if the young members of the family pick it up or not. probably not as they will just text each other.

hopper1

We all used to use a similar language, when I was at school: Ag Og!
Used exactly the same as your AG, but, Ag on first word Og, on the second word, then just alternate as you speak :shock:
So glad I'm not trying to demonstrate!
Though one of my mates and I (from different schools/areas) have both used it before, to disguise talk not intended for the wives to hear

John C.

hopper1 wrote:

We all used to use a similar language, when I was at school: Ag Og!
Used exactly the same as your AG, but, Ag on first word Og, on the second word, then just alternate as you speak :shock:
So glad I'm not trying to demonstrate!
Though one of my mates and I (from different schools/areas) have both used it before, to disguise talk not intended for the wives to hear

I was surprised how quickly we slipped back into useing AG. A bit like riding a bike

hopper1

John C. wrote:

hopper1 wrote:

We all used to use a similar language, when I was at school: Ag Og!
Used exactly the same as your AG, but, Ag on first word Og, on the second word, then just alternate as you speak :shock:
So glad I'm not trying to demonstrate!
Though one of my mates and I (from different schools/areas) have both used it before, to disguise talk not intended for the wives to hear

I was surprised how quickly we slipped back into useing AG. A bit like riding a bike

My mate was gob smacked. We met through work, and where even living in a different country.
One evening, we were all sat round mine and my mate through this random 'Ag Og' sentence out into the room... I responded! He was stunned, but we quickly continued, much to our wives bewilderment.