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Dumbledore does not understand "Parseltongue" in MoR and Ron could not have memorized a phrase in it. Parseltongue is not audio structure. Snakes can't talk.
Despite knowing that snakes can't actually hear and thus could not possibly have a verbal language, I've always thought that Parseltongue must have have some sort of correlation, however rough, between what they were saying and the kinds of hissing they produced.
How else would you use a password-recognition spell--similar to the one for Dumbledore's office--to lock the Chamber of Secrets?
I believe that this, right here, is a difference between MoR and canon. (Not that I disagree with it!)