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–Latin

I’ve seen a few places on the net requesting Pig Latin translators and decided to write my own.  I have created for you in PHP a Pig Latin translator.  It’s rather simple it uses the three known rules which are the following:

• For words that begin with consonants, move the leading consonant(s) to the end of the word and add “ay.” Thus, “ball” becomes “all-bay”; “button” becomes “utton-bay”; “star” becomes “ar-stay”; “three” becomes “ee-thray”;
• for words beginning with “qu,” move the “qu” to the end of the word and add ay. Thus “question” becomes “estion-quay”; and
• for words that begin with vowels, simply add “way” to the end of the word. Thus, “a” becomes “a-way”; “at” becomes “at-way”; “ermine” becomes “ermine-way.” This rule tends to get varied a lot, with some variants using instead “h” (thus, “at” becomes “at-hay”), or some just using the bare syllable “ay” (”at” becomes “at-ay”).

In my pig translator I’ve included handling for the three types of vowel rules, as well as some capitalization handling as well as limited punctuation handling.  I wrote it quickly and thus the new category ‘dirty scripts’ of which this PHP Pig-Latin translator will be the first entry. “Dirty Scripts” is were I plan to place scripts that aren’t the old archived unstable, but the new unstable code. Anyway without further ado,

$word){

	$first_char = substr($word,0,1);
	$endLetter = substr($word,strlen($word)-1);
	$punctuation = false;
	if(isPunctuationMark($endLetter)){
		$word = substr($word,0,strlen($word)-1);
		$punctuation = true;
	}
	if(isQu($word)){
		$words[$key] = substr($word,2).'-'.substr($word,0,2);
	}elseif(isVowel($first_char)){
		if($vowel_rule == 1){
			$words[$key] = $word.'-way';
		}elseif($vowel_rule==2){
			$words[$key] = $word.'-hay';
		}else{
			$words[$key] = $word.'-ay';
		}
	}else{
		$words[$key] = substr($word,1).'-'.$first_char.'ay';
	}
	//case fixing
	if(ereg('[A-Z]',$word) !== false){
		$words[$key] = ucfirst(strtolower($words[$key]));
	}
	if($punctuation){
		$translated_text .= $words[$key].$endLetter.' ';
	}else{
		$translated_text .= $words[$key].' ';
	}
}

function isVowel($letter){
	$letter = strtolower($letter);
	if(in_array($letter,array('a','e','i','o','u'))){
		return true;
	}else return false;
	return false;
}
function isQu($word){
	$word = strtolower($word);
	if(substr($word,0,2) == 'qu'){
		return true;
	}else return false;
	return false;
}
function isPunctuationMark($endLetter){
	if(in_array($endLetter,array(';',',','.','?',':'))){
		return true;
	}else return false;
	return false;
}

?>



Enter in your text to be translated to pig latin.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate we can not consecrate we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.


Choose your vowel rule. Example at become at-way or at-hay or at-ay.
-way

-hay

-ay

And if you like my script above let me know, there is a share your thoughts link at the top.