Kids love to play, and that includes playing with language.
These language games, or ludlings, are played by kids around the world, and they can be fun, or confusing, or just maddening to adults. But don’t worry.
Linguist Daniel Midgley makes it easy to understand on this episode of Talk the Talk.
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Indigenous Languages Will Become A HSC Subject from 2016
http://www.pedestrian.tv/news/arts-and-culture/indigenous-languages-will-become-a-hsc-subject-fro/4a8c5eea-510b-4417-8d52-b258f975303d.htm
Australia developing first ever school curriculum for Indigenous languages
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/may/25/australia-developing-first-ever-school-curriculum-for-indigenous-languages?CMP=share_btn_tw
Stanford researchers uncover patterns in how scientists lie about their data
http://news.stanford.edu/pr/2015/pr-fraud-science-papers-111615.html
Markowitz and Hancock: Linguistic Obfuscation in Fraudulent Science
http://jls.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/11/05/0261927X15614605.abstract
What Studies of Retractions Tell Us
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4278466/
The Super Secret World of Ludlings – You Know, for Kids!
http://daily.jstor.org/super-secret-world-ludlings-know-kids/
Don Laycock: Towards a Typology of Ludlings, or Play-Languages
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/234622653_Towards_a_Typology_of_Ludlings_or_Play-Languages
The Pig Latins of 11 Other Languages
http://mentalfloss.com/article/50242/pig-latins-11-other-languages
The Secret Languages of English
http://literaryashland.org/?p=3135
Etymonline: Pig Latin
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Pig+Latin&allowed_in_frame=
Straight Dope: What’s the origin of pig Latin?
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2163/whats-the-origin-of-pig-latin
English to Pig Latin Translator
http://www.snowcrest.net/donnelly/piglatin.html
Gibberish on Slums of Beverly Hills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEcoDiRfK7k
Wikipedia has a detailed list of language games
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_game
Language Games: Allspråket, Mattenenglisch & Louchébem
http://www.thelinguafile.com/2012/12/language-games-allspraket.html
What’s the origin of Pig Latin? (Info on the dialects)
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/4219/whats-the-origin-of-pig-latin
Pig Latin as a diagnostic tool
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=GfahZ6HS1rYC&lpg=PT280&ots=1DORwFG204&dq=p%22pig%20latin%22%20cognition&pg=PT280#v=onepage&q=%22pig%20latin%22%20cognition&f=false
Dyslexic kids have a hard time with Pig Latin
http://dyslexiahelp.umich.edu/parents/learn-about-dyslexia/what-is-dyslexia
New Mapping Tools Show Just How Bad China’s Air Pollution Really Is
http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/environment/new-mapping-tools-show-just-how-bad-chinas-air-pollution-really-is
China pollution climbs to perilous levels on eve of Paris climate talks
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-30/china-smog-climbs-to-perilous-levels-on-eve-of-climate-talks/6987906
-pocalypse
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=-pocalypse
“Most useful” ADS 2012
http://www.americandialect.org/hashtag-2012
Double Dutch
http://mindly.org/tutorial/howto/Learn_to_Speak_Double_Dutch
Bahasa F
http://honeymeow.blogspot.com.au/2008/10/do-you-speak-f-language.html?m=1
Image credit:http://www.breenafain.com/blog/2013/04/23/how-we-talk-to-each-other-matters
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