New Form of Pig Latin Brings Home the Aconbay

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Matt Petronzio
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New Form of Pig Latin Brings Home the Aconbay

Idday ouyay eakspay Igpay Atinlay asway away idkay? No, that isn't a stream of typos -- it's Pig Latin for, "Did you speak Pig Latin as a kid?"

For the uninitiated, Pig Latin is a made-up language that moves the first consonant of a word to the end with an added "ay," and adds "way" to the end of a word that starts with a vowel.

Got it? Good.

In this comic, however, Grant Snider of Incidental Comics imagines a pig reenacting many of the common Latin phrases that have been assimilated into the English language, redefining "Pig Latin" entirely.

There's one idiom you may not be familiar with: Snider notes that John Steinbeck used to sign books with a drawing of a flying pig next to the motto Ad astra per alas porci -- "to the stars on the wings of a pig."

You can purchase Snider's comics as prints through his poster shop.

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