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Question Pig Latin & Spanglish

I've heard of Pig Latin but I don't understand what it is really. I know Spanglish is a cross between English and Spanish (right?) but I don't understand that either.
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There are many places online that teach the basics of Pig Latin. It is only used by English-speakers and is merely a jumbled form of English. It is usually used to keep a conversation private from untrained ears.

Spanglish will vary from place to place. It is a mix of Spanish and English. You and your Spanish class probably use a form of Spanglish every day.
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ok thanks can you give me an example of Pig Latin?
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There are varying degrees of rules, some easier to master at first. I'll teach you what I learned. There are other ways.

Here is a normal English sentence:
I want to go to the store.

Here is the same sentence, but rendered in Pig Latin:
I-yay ant-way o-tay o-gay o-tay e-thay ore-stay.

To form each word, take the initial consonant (or consonant cluster) sound, suffix it to the end, and add an 'ay' sound (like the 'ay' in say - in Spanish, 'ei'). When the word doesn't begin with a consonant sound, only the 'ay' sound is suffixed. However, some people like to throw in a consonant to make up for the absence of one. So, you'll also see -way, -yay or -hay as a suffix. I learned to use -yay.

Here are some more examples:
through -> ough-thray
feast -> east-fay
sorry -> orry-say
quiet -> iet-quay
eagle -> eagle-way (eagle-yay, eagle-ay)

You can try out this Pig Latin Translator site.
(There's a box to check under the translation area if you want to see the hyphen.
I think some sort of punctuation is needed. Otherwise, 'ayspray' could be translated back into English as spray (ay-spray) or prays (ays-pray).)

Some people like to split compound words into respective parts.
For example:
international -> inter-way-ational-nay
multilingual -> ulti-may-ingual-lay
bedroom -> ed-bay-oom-ray
buttermilk -> utter-bay-ilk-may
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thank you ^_^
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