[laplata]

Good for her. That’s kind of funny ... when I was little, some of the adults used what I think was called pigeon (sp) English so the little ones wouldn’t understand.

[nopardons]

"PIGEON" anything, is a patois/just bad English/French/German, etc.!

In the 1930s-'40s, there was PIG LATIN, which kids used to use to keep adults in the dark. Could you, perhaps, be thinking of that?

[Chickensoup]

es yay

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(Yes we did)

[Paladin2]

Then there was pig latin....