Marilyn's Photos - Nov 19 2025 - Pig Latin vs Dog Latin
My question of the day: Does Elon Musk’s robot dog Dogimus have some actual Latin in its name. He is known for Latin phrases and Roman-inspired imagery. It does relate to the name for his humanoid robot which is Optimus, derived from the Latin word for Best or greatest. The “imus” could be taken to suggest a greatest dog robot.
I wonder if Elon Musk uses Pig Latin in his communcations. His company’s Neuralink projects involved a pig named Gertrude. The project involves implanting a computer chip in the brain to demonstrate a working brain-to-machine interface. This would likely be his twist on Pig Latin.
To speak the real Pig Latin, the instructions go like this: Move the first consonant or consonant blend to the end of the work and add “ay”. For words that begin with a vowel, simply add “way”, “yay",” or ay” to the end. “Pig” becomes “ig” + “p” and then add the “aya” to become “igpay” - this is or was meant to hide conversations from people. Wikipedia also says that there is Dog Latin. This is translating English words into Latin by conjugating or declining them as if they were Latin words. We did this with Coca Cola in high school.
It turns out there is such a thing as Dog Latin. It has a long tradition and is mentioned in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Shakespeare’s play written in the 1590s. Skip ahead to the present and Margaret Atwood has a phrase in The Handmaid’s Tale scratched into the wall. Take one of our favourite TV shows - The Red Green Show. It closed each episode with their Possum Lodge motto: Quando omni flunkus moritati - whch translated to “When all else fails, play dead”. Wikipedia says there was an episode in which some of the members break away to form a rival Salamander Lodge ,whose motto is Quando omni flunkus terra retreatum - “When all else fails, climb under a rock”.
Latin seems to be with us every day without us being attentive to it. What about this latin - Lorem ipsum - it is the nonsense filler text and is based on a Cicero work. It comes up in Photoshop every time I used the text function.
Millie goes to the groomer today, and here’s the explanation for why her haircut costs much more than mine did yesterday. And below is Dezi with her seven house rules.
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