Date:  Fri, 15 Jul 1994 10:53:43 -0500

From:  "Gerald W. Walton" <vcgw[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.BACKBONE.OLEMISS.EDU>

Subject: Dog Language



    Anybody out there ever heard of something called Dog Language?

    As I understand it, vowels are pronounced in ordinary fashion, and

consonants are followed by certain agreed-upon sounds. "Thomas," for

example, would be something like Tu has o ma suh.

    The only person I know who uses it learned it from his grandmother,

and she once told him that slaves used Dog Language to keep their masters

from understanding them as they talked among themselves.

    Thanks, GWW