If I remember correctly, the Sims team intended Simlish to be complete gibberish. However, they wanted it to sound like a real word language. I think they decided to mix the 2 most nonsense-sounding languages they could, and chose a mixture of Finnish and Welsh, along with some completely made-up words.
Welsh is rather special, isn't it?
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
or
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochuchaf
It really depends on what part of the villiage you are in.
In TS3, I've heard the chef on the cooking channel say 'bonjour' ('hello' or 'good day' in French) before continuing in Simlish.
I have a Sim in the military career, and when she's at work at the military base, I can hear soldiers doing drills. I've even heard them sing a Simlish version of a military cadence. The one that goes 'I don't know but I've been told…'
Let me see.
Yibbs - Sick, the best, cool, YES! Nooboo - baby
Nek - check
Nek-ate Checkmate
Bar-bar fringlenerp - expression of worry
Boyirthday - birthday
keeb - good, usually uses as keeb-keeb over great food
Yibs is as clearly and patently a "yes" as "Neeb" is, a "no".
Those things are very, very easy to figure out after playing for over 2000 hours, I can assure you. Yibs is yes, neeb is no. Anything else, I could see uncertainty, but not about those.
And yes, baby is "nooboo" whether used toward an actual infant as in 'Oh, nooboo....lurve!" (Lurve is love) right before kissing the baby's head, or used amorously toward a lover.
There are certain phrases used specifically in certain circumstances, like (not sure how to spell this) "Sweat gabe!" which is used when one Sim propositions a grind, with another.
So maybe a lot of it is stock phrases of nonsense, but some of it has specific meaning. And "Bleffy!" is an utterance of fear, pain, or dismay, often coupled with "NEEB! Bleffy! BLEFFY!" when running around hysterical while something terrible is happening like a fire or something. That the phrase is also used in a certain unmentionable mod in moments of, ahem, release, kind of disturbed me the first time I encountered it, but it was probably used for the vocal intensity.
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I don't think they would be amused if they knew you would think of them as that, considering that they are like humans.
Plus, you should never try to handle your Sims - those little teeth HURT!
Welsh is rather special, isn't it?
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
or
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochuchaf
It really depends on what part of the villiage you are in.
I have a Sim in the military career, and when she's at work at the military base, I can hear soldiers doing drills. I've even heard them sing a Simlish version of a military cadence. The one that goes 'I don't know but I've been told…'
TS4 Sims in TS3
Yes
And then there's nostabadu which I think it means gutter because she said there was trash in the gutter 😂
Those things are very, very easy to figure out after playing for over 2000 hours, I can assure you. Yibs is yes, neeb is no. Anything else, I could see uncertainty, but not about those.
And yes, baby is "nooboo" whether used toward an actual infant as in 'Oh, nooboo....lurve!" (Lurve is love) right before kissing the baby's head, or used amorously toward a lover.
There are certain phrases used specifically in certain circumstances, like (not sure how to spell this) "Sweat gabe!" which is used when one Sim propositions a grind, with another.
So maybe a lot of it is stock phrases of nonsense, but some of it has specific meaning. And "Bleffy!" is an utterance of fear, pain, or dismay, often coupled with "NEEB! Bleffy! BLEFFY!" when running around hysterical while something terrible is happening like a fire or something. That the phrase is also used in a certain unmentionable mod in moments of, ahem, release, kind of disturbed me the first time I encountered it, but it was probably used for the vocal intensity.
Let's make Liberty and Justice For All a reality.
As this thread had been inactive for quite some time before being bumped, I'm closing it as per our necroposting rules.
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Leeloo