Rules and Examples¶
Rules¶
If word begins with consonant sound, all letters before the initial vowel are placed at the end of the word sequence. Then, “ay” is added.
- pig => igpay
- banana => ananabay
- trash => ashtray
- happy => appyhay
- duck => uckday
- glove => oveglay
If word begins with vowel sounds or a silent letter, one just adds “yay” to the end.
- eat => eatyay
- omelet => omeletyay
- are => areyay
Interpretations and Assumptions¶
Following are some assumptions made in implementation
Silent Letters¶
In order to infer silent letters cmu pronunication corpus of 134K words was used(http://www.nltk.org/_modules/nltk/corpus/reader/cmudict.html). The words with silent first letter were filtered into ~1.5K words silent_words.json. Among them the most common prefixes were chosen as approximation of silent words. These include
( “pf”, “ph”, “ps”, “pn”, “pt”, “wr”, “ts”, “gn”, “kn”, “jo”, “he”)
Casing¶
- The cases of individual words are to be preserved. For example for the sentence
- Who are you?
- title case of word who is preserved after translation
- Owhay areyay ouyay?
Punctuation¶
Punctuation is preserved. Special case is if punctuation is part of the word such as ‘ in don’t it is considered as a single word and translated to on’tday
Sample Cases¶
Following are some sample sentences and their translations that capture the assumptions.
| Sentence | Translation |
|---|---|
| How do you say ... in Pig Latin? | Owhay oday ouyay aysay ... inyay Igpay Atinlay? |
| Where is the toilet? | Erewhay isyay ethay oilettay? |
| Call the police! | Allcay ethay olicepay! |
| How do you say ... in Pig Latin?! I don’t know! | Owhay oday ouyay aysay ... inyay Igpay Atinlay?! Iyay on’tday owknay! |
| Rhythm | Rhythmay |
