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My sim spoke English!
breyerhorseluver
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My sim had snowflake day party, and invited all her family round, along with the pile of gifts I wanted my sims to give gifts to eachother to improve their relationships, and as my child gave her uncle a present he said "For me? thanks!" Or I am 99.9% certain he said that, it sounded just like it. I am so excited for some reason, thought I'd share this! 
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Actually, since simlish is just gibberish, sometimes english words got mixed into the fray.
Words, not phrases. Each action is linked through programming to set simlish possibilities. The simlish is expressly designed as gibberish and as such they would never program in a realistic phrase because it would break the consistency they are aiming for.
@breyerhorseluver: Fun would be laughing about something that could actually happen, not claiming something blatantly false. It would be akin to me saying "hey I stepped outside today and I am 99.9% sure the lawn was made of lime jello"
At that point it is so outlandish as to be blatantly impossible.
Though that is true, I don't understand how that could be so fitting for the occasion if it was just mixed up gibberish/English words. . . . :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
Like Celiria said, phrases are pre-programmed. Sims can only say certain things for certain actions.
While the chances of it being said entirely in English are VERY low, since they knew they were recording for this specific action they could have said something that sounded close to it.
Edit to say: I think everybody needs to take a deep breathe and remember that this is a game. It's okay to have different opinions :-)
Simlish is just random, although they do have the occasional real word thrown in.
Simlish in Sims 1 was funny. When they answered the phone they said "pantaloons"
That's so cute though, the uncle saying thanks, it is possible he really did say that, I've never listened to them during a gift giving party before maybe there are some cute phrases thrown in.
This same thing happened for me too when I was playing Sims 2, the "honk honk" is really hilarious. Sometimes when we play sims it does sound like they say a few English words. Some phrases sound very close to being in English. I think it was really neat that your sim said that at a gift giving party. I think I will be listening more closely to my sims when they talk.
This. When Will Wright was designing Sims as an actual game, he made the decision that they should use their own language. Languages being what they are, the gibbering sounds are often taken from other languages, partly to form a sense of togetherness around the world. The sense that Sims isn't specifically one single place, but could belong anywhere. This approach has worked amazingly well, as people all over the world have insisted (despite evidence to the contrary) that their Sims are fluent in the players' native language.
To everyone getting hot under the collar about this: It's a game. Things happen, people like to hear and see what they want. Unless you can recreate their event and give definitive alternatives to what they likely heard/saw, please try to let them to their own beliefs, whatever they may be.
To the original poster: In this day and age, it's pics or it didn't happen. Even then, you'll get skeptics, because "proof" is so easy to forge. Since phrases ARE linked to actions, duplicate the event for the camera. Once you record the sounds you heard, you can share them with others and won't have to be your word against theirs. This same advice is good for any hard-to-believe event that happens. Document it, repeat it, record it. Figure out what's really going on if you're going to present it as fact.
Not trying to be a buzz kill, or anything. Personally, I don't want my Sims speaking English (or any other real language). I happen to like them speaking Simlish just fine.
I think it helps understand the things they say for some of the words to sound familiar.
Cheryl
To the OP, my advice is don't pay any attention to the bitter fun-sucker.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius
very cool Zolt65, its songs that always make me think im hearing english but whats strange on occasion i think i hear simlish when i hear the real songs :shock: