Show NEW LANGUAGE LANGUA E IN A LESSON LESSO Little Girl Girt Is Taught to Converse In Boston Latin In Remarkably Sho Short Time How long Pop Ethel asked doe does it take to learn a strange language Tut Put hash basic a tUl tut dud o 0 pup up e nu nut dud sees BUS pop rep replied ed Stop your Joking and tell toIl me Ethel pleaded Dud o 0 tut tnt hash I nun kuk 1 I mum juf o 0 o. o kuk i 1 nun gug pop asked Why hy will you make fun of mo me asked Ethel pouting Ill go and asil mama Walt Wait a minute daughter said pop pup Did you understand what 1 I Iwas was saying to you Of course course not noti Well I I can teach you In In an nn hour to understand everything I say sayto to you in that tongue and to answer me meIn meIn mein in the same samo language Now youre you're Joking again No Im I'm not I was only speaking Boston Latin which every youngster boy or girl within 50 m miles les of or the Hub spoke fi fluently along in tile the early OL Now pay attention Every word barring g a few abbreviations is spelled spell ed out In English in a disguised alphabet alphabet alpha alpha- bet That hat makes it rather slow speaking but it Is blind enough to everybody who doesn't know the trick In this alphabet all the vowels arc are pronounced and written naturally Most of the consonants are sounded and written with the Initial letter a B aU aV V U and the initial letter repeated Thus a Is a be Is bub and so BO on But there are some consonants that do not work well welt that way For example ex cx- ample c Is Is' Is cause Another such let let- letter ter tee Is h. h Huh would not be euphonious ous so BO we call h hash The other letters of ot similar difficulty are re q ci w x y y- They are made mado pronounced and Now do you understand my cauSE hash I 1 lul dud 7 Pop asked Surely my child Ethel replied Ethel had bad her lesson in mind all day and maybe mabe she lay a awake wake Until late In the evening studying it over In Inthe Inthe Inthe the morning she surprised her mother by saying to her father at the break breakfast breakfast breakfast fast table Pup o 0 pup a lul i tut tnt tut lul ml e mum o 0 e hash a sus BUS hash pup lul e a 3 sus e. e And Pop replied as he gave her second sec see ond helping e BUS sus mum dud o e a |