Dog Latin


Dog Latin, also known as Cod Latin, macaronic Latin, mock Latin, or Canis Latinicus, refers to the creation of a phrase or jargon in imitation of Latin, often by "translating" English words into Latin by conjugating or declining them as if they were Latin words. Unlike the similarly named language game of Pig Latin, Dog Latin is more of a humorous device for invoking scholarly seriousness.
Sometimes "dog Latin" can mean a poor-quality attempt at writing genuine Latin.

History

Examples of this predate even Shakespeare, whose 1590s play, Love's Labour's Lost, includes a reference to dog Latin:
Thomas Jefferson mentioned dog Latin by name in 1815:

Examples

Insofar as this specimen can be translated, it is as follows:
The meter uses Latin vowel quantities for the Latin parts, and to some extent follows English stress in the English parts.
Another variant has similar lines in a different order:
The meaning here is "The storm rose up and overturned the boat" and "Except for John Periwig", etc.
which, when read aloud using traditional English pronunciation of Latin, sounds like the following:
but which means in Latin
In English, this is: