- Rövarspråket
Rövarspråket ( _en. The Robber Language) is a Swedish
language game . It became popular after the books aboutKalle Blomkvist byAstrid Lindgren , where the children use it as acode , both at play and in solving actual crimes. [#Lind51]The principle is easy enough. Every consonant (spelling matters, not pronunciation) is doubled, and an "o" is inserted in-between. Vowels are left intact. It is quite possible to render the Rövarspråket version of an English word as well as a Swedish, "e.g.":
:"sos-tot-u-bob-bob-o-ror-non"
(or less intelligbly written without the hyphens) means "stubborn". Needless to say, the code is not very useful in written form, but it can be tough when spoken by a trained (and thus quick) user. On the other hand, for an untrained speaker, a word or phrase can often be something of a
tongue-twister or ashibboleth .Today, the books (and subsequent films) are so well-known in Sweden that the language has become integrated in the culture of schoolchildren. Most Swedes are familiar with it.
ee also
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*Pig Latin
*Ubbi Dubbi
*Argot References
External links
* [http://utilitymill.com/utility/Rovarspraket Rövarspråket Encoder Utility]
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