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    Did She Just Say That?

    GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 28,570 Member
    in The Sims 4 General Discussion
    I decided my Sim Parents should play darts upstairs in the gaming room while their five offspring do their homework. Louise went first, in fact, she started before Joseph got into the room. But the dart went askew, apparently. I even had her practice earlier in the day. I found it stuck in the wooden floor near her left foot! :open_mouth: She threw a second one and I honestly thought she said, "Oh, darkness, gloom." Louise is an Erratic Sim, so I shouldn't be surprised at what antics she pulls and what words fly from her lips. But this was funny.

    Please share some of the things you've overheard from your Sims. :)
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      GirlFromIpanemaGirlFromIpanema Posts: 843 Member
      GalacticGal wrote: »
      "Oh, darkness, gloom."

      I will be using this next time I'm unhappy about something haha.

      I swear I've heard my Sims say things in English before; like "Good luck" while playing horseshoes.
      It's probably just our imagination (maybe we play too much Sims haha).
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      cynciecyncie Posts: 4,656 Member
      I do think there are real word and phrases buried among the simlish. Once my sim looked in my general direction and I swore he said “It’s you.” I wondered at the time if that was some kind of Easter egg tied to the action of looking toward the camera.
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      babajaynebabajayne Posts: 1,866 Member
      Sometimes I hear “Steve”, which is my husband’s name. Is it just me?
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      GirlFromIpanemaGirlFromIpanema Posts: 843 Member
      I think it's true that our brains try to make sense of things, so that may be why we feel that we hear "real words" in The Sims. Similar to how we see faces in wallpaper patterns and inanimate objects (like cars and plug sockets) etc.

      I'm sure there is an interesting psychological study in here somewhere.

      Or maybe we all need a healthy break from our games! :lol:
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      ignominiusrexignominiusrex Posts: 2,680 Member
      babajayne wrote: »
      Sometimes I hear “Steve”, which is my husband’s name. Is it just me?

      I hear that phrase a lot and hear it as "steeb" so yeah, I think we tend to insert things that make sense to us any time there's an issue with clear audibility. We already know we humans do that with basically everything: our minds impose meaning to randomness, or why we see faces in clouds and irregular-patterned wallpaper and so on as mentioned by @GirlFromIpanema above.

      Some Sims4 simlish phrases I can even hear in my head because they replay so often, are "Doh dah veppy!" and "Happy I'm frahm!" (happy you're from something? Okay dude, I'm happy for you too!) but that's because there are such a limited number of stock Simlish phrases in 4, compared to 3, that it's like one of those Elmo toys that says the same six phrases over and over again. Gets tiresome fast.

      Some are obviously based on English words, "Noom!" (yum, or num!), "newboo hungah!" when feeding a baby (commenting literally "noob hungies!" and then there's "neeb!" meaning a flat no, and "disgufah!" meaning disgusting! as a comment when grossed out by trash or stinky diapers.

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      AyKooChaoAyKooChao Posts: 676 Member
      I’m positive I just heard a newly-created Sim say “waffle Tuesday”. XD
      #ConsistencyForAliensTS4
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      GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 28,570 Member
      ignominiusrex wrote: »
      babajayne wrote: »
      Sometimes I hear “Steve”, which is my husband’s name. Is it just me?

      I hear that phrase a lot and hear it as "steeb" so yeah, I think we tend to insert things that make sense to us any time there's an issue with clear audibility. We already know we humans do that with basically everything: our minds impose meaning to randomness, or why we see faces in clouds and irregular-patterned wallpaper and so on as mentioned by @GirlFromIpanema above.

      Some Sims4 simlish phrases I can even hear in my head because they replay so often, are "Doh dah veppy!" and "Happy I'm frahm!" (happy you're from something? Okay dude, I'm happy for you too!) but that's because there are such a limited number of stock Simlish phrases in 4, compared to 3, that it's like one of those Elmo toys that says the same six phrases over and over again. Gets tiresome fast.

      Some are obviously based on English words, "Noom!" (yum, or num!), "newboo hungah!" when feeding a baby (commenting literally "noob hungies!" and then there's "neeb!" meaning a flat no, and "disgufah!" meaning disgusting! as a comment when grossed out by trash or stinky diapers.

      I've always wondered what neeb could mean. LOL Thanks. Erik Cantrell says that one a lot!
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      GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 28,570 Member
      GirlFromIpanema wrote: »
      I think it's true that our brains try to make sense of things, so that may be why we feel that we hear "real words" in The Sims. Similar to how we see faces in wallpaper patterns and inanimate objects (like cars and plug sockets) etc.

      I'm sure there is an interesting psychological study in here somewhere.

      Or maybe we all need a healthy break from our games! :lol:

      Actually, I do believe the devs admitted that Simlish is a mish-mash of words from all languages. I used to pick up Russian words back in Sims3, I believe it was. (I took one year of Russian close to 50 years ago.) But you're quite correct, our mind fills in the lines, as it were, in interpreting the undiscernible. That's why in Art Class my instructor suggested we don't fill in an entire line for a cheek or even the nose of the person we were drawing. Let the brain do the rest. When I write, I tend to the something similar. I use description to a minimum and let my readers' minds do the rest.

      I hardly played the game more than two-three days a week in the beginning, which is why it took just over a year to complete Pinstar's Legacy Challenge. I'm just now playing every day. I do come up for 'air' upon occasion and do some genealogy and some editing (which I must get back to, if said book is going to be in a form to handout at the next family reunion).

      Thanks for weighing in. Your words are very insightful.
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      GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 28,570 Member
      AyKooChao wrote: »
      I’m positive I just heard a newly-created Sim say “waffle Tuesday”. XD

      Did you know that waffle is actually a Dutch word? This is what I was taught in grade school many, MANY decades ago.
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      cynciecyncie Posts: 4,656 Member
      Whenever I take a spellcaster sim into CAS they use a phrase that sounds like tod-bumkis during the Magic animation. I figured if they were that obsessed, we needed to do something about it. There is now some schlump name Todd Bumpkiss living in Willow Creek. We’ll see how that goes.
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      OldeseadoggeOldeseadogge Posts: 5,000 Member
      Not paid much attention in TS4, but I've heard English and Spanish in TS 2.
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      MoonlightGrahamMoonlightGraham Posts: 884 Member
      I experienced the opposite phenomenon this evening: I heard a human, in the real world, speak Simlish!

      I was at the grocery store and, as I was pushing my cart up the aisle, I met a young woman heading the other way. Her phone rang, and she stopped to take the call. Then, she greeted the person on the other end with "Sul sul!" My daughter was with me, and she couldn't help giggling at her.

      "I think she plays The Sims," Daughter declared to me...loud enough for the woman on the phone to hear.

      She simply smiled and nodded "yes."
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      Exie hay, cavero, mabza meeah vendarzo.
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      GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 28,570 Member
      I have a loft office in my house on the second floor. This is where I play my game. Hubby is generally downstairs on the main floor. The sound carries from my office. Sometimes, he'll hear my Sim singing in Simlish and comment on it. The I'll hear him laugh. He likes to tease me about it. I demonstrated the way Sims walk when they have to use the bathroom — and I do believe he tried the walk once, just to kid with me. LOL It happens.
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      GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 28,570 Member
      Oldeseadogge wrote: »
      Not paid much attention in TS4, but I've heard English and Spanish in TS 2.

      In Sims3 I heard Toddlers using their Potty Chair, say what sounds very much like, "I do it." So cute.
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      AncaryvanAncaryvan Posts: 736 Member
      Eversince St Myshuno released, I was surprise to hear new Simlish word: Boo Shing!! Used when sims are tensed or angry. BTW that Simlish is Identical to Mandarin Chinese speaking, equivalent to English No Way!!
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      Mariefoxprice83Mariefoxprice83 Posts: 8,109 Member
      I've several times heard my sims say "Kizana" which happens to be the name of one of my Dungeons and Dragons characters. It's amusing but it's definitely a coincidence.
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      GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 28,570 Member
      Ancaryvan wrote: »
      Eversince St Myshuno released, I was surprise to hear new Simlish word: Boo Shing!! Used when sims are tensed or angry. BTW that Simlish is Identical to Mandarin Chinese speaking, equivalent to English No Way!!

      Really? I know they spoke Chinese on the TV program, Firefly and to me Simlish doesn't sound a thing like it.
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      HeathertibbHeathertibb Posts: 153 Member
      I've heard my sims say several things that sounded like English. I've heard the sims say a phrase that sounds like this: "I'm just hecking with you.", which I think means "I'm just joking with you." Has anybody else heard this used? It comes up a lot in my gameplay. I do believe SImlish is composed of several different languages.
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      GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 28,570 Member
      Heathertibb wrote: »
      I've heard my sims say several things that sounded like English. I've heard the sims say a phrase that sounds like this: "I'm just hecking with you.", which I think means "I'm just joking with you." Has anybody else heard this used? It comes up a lot in my gameplay. I do believe SImlish is composed of several different languages.

      That's basically what the Devs said a few years back. It's a mish-mash. I would dearly love to know what they mean when they say what sounds like sac kree nario. Mine say that a lot.
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      GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 28,570 Member
      Two Young Adult Sims got into a fight on the door stoop of the PBP Studios. The accolades had just ended for the night. As the two scuffled inside that hazy brown dust cloud, I could swear I heard one of them say, "Mama." LOL Turns out the fight was between somebody's Stan and the Bouncer, who is also a military Sim. Craziness.
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      AncaryvanAncaryvan Posts: 736 Member
      @GalacticGal wrote: »
      Ancaryvan wrote: »
      Eversince St Myshuno released, I was surprise to hear new Simlish word: Boo Shing!! Used when sims are tensed or angry. BTW that Simlish is Identical to Mandarin Chinese speaking, equivalent to English No Way!!

      Really? I know they spoke Chinese on the TV program, Firefly and to me Simlish doesn't sound a thing like it.
      Try pay attention to any NPCs who are in tense or angry mode, especially Victor Fong. Also... Nathan Fillion? Catching his Rookie Series I see... :lol:
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      GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 28,570 Member
      Ancaryvan wrote: »
      @GalacticGal wrote: »
      Ancaryvan wrote: »
      Eversince St Myshuno released, I was surprise to hear new Simlish word: Boo Shing!! Used when sims are tensed or angry. BTW that Simlish is Identical to Mandarin Chinese speaking, equivalent to English No Way!!

      Really? I know they spoke Chinese on the TV program, Firefly and to me Simlish doesn't sound a thing like it.
      Try pay attention to any NPCs who are in tense or angry mode, especially Victor Fong. Also... Nathan Fillion? Catching his Rookie Series I see... :lol:

      I loved that series, Rookie or not. I own the entire ONLY season on DVD, which contains at least two episodes that went unaired.
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