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Language that they speak in the fair


Im tryin to figure out what they are speaking when the pest is talkin to his girl friend and his friends come up and tell him about the pool party. I know its a kind of pig latin but i want some more info....anyone know?

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I think it's just Pig Latin. It's also amusing where he's talking "Chinese" but he's just like "Mesohornymeloveyoulongtime"

I was the only one out of my friends who laughed at that.

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If I'm remembering what you're talking about correctly, I think it's called Ubbi or something. It's like, after after every consonant thats before a vowel you say "ub". My friends and I talk like that sometimes, but I don't know if it's entirely the same thing, because I haven't seen the movie in a while.

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Perhaps it's Ubbi Dubbi, from a boston kids show on PBS in the 70's called ZOOM. Kids all wearing matching purple striped clothes.
You put an Ub before each pronounced vowel. Pest is P-Ub-est. Chinese is Ch-Ub-in_Ub-ese. Dual vowels don't get two Ubs.
I think the show lives in reruns on cable but im not sure which network..

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