Animal Crossing’s fake language sounds different in Japanese
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#2Animalese is a simple phonetic translation of the text. It’s super noticeable in Spanish which is fairly straightforward. In English it’s a simplistic translation to phonemes as far as I can tell.
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#3I'm curious if that's the same for other games that do similar "gibberish" sounds like Mario Odyssey and Zelda games - I do think the gibberish "sounds" englishy. I can see them making it sound more like Japanese gibberish in Japan.
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#4How English sounds to foreigners.
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#5Animalese is a simple phonetic translation of the text. It’s super noticeable in Spanish which is fairly straightforward. In English it’s a simplistic translation to phonemes as far as I can tell.
I first realized what they were doing when talking to Blathers. The hoots in his speech were easy to pick out in the audio which then led to hearing that the rest of the text was being spoken. After noticing it, it's been much easier to hear it happening for all characters.
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#6Interestingly, we have a word in French to call these gibberish languages that sound like real ones but have no meaning.
It's called speaking "yogurt".
It was originally used because young French people wanted to sing the English songs that they heard, but didn't know the language, so they would make up sounds that looked like English.
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#7Reminds of glossolalia. The speaker believes they’re speaking a foreign language, but when you examine the “language” it’s just random phonemes from the speaker’s native language.
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#8Reminds me of a song from 1972 by an Italian comedian. The song is called "Prisencolinensinainciusol" which means...well, nothing. It's gibberish. In fact, the entire song is nonsense lyrics made to sound like English.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8&feature=emb_titl...
Re: Animal Crossing’s fake language sounds different in Japanese
#9I'm curious if that's the same for other games that do similar "gibberish" sounds like Mario Odyssey and Zelda games - I do think the gibberish "sounds" englishy. I can see them making it sound more like Japanese gibberish in Japan.
The clothes shop attendant out front in Kakariko Village actually yells something in Japanese iirc.
Edit: In the english version of Breath of the Wild.
Re: Animal Crossing’s fake language sounds different in Japanese
#10Interestingly, we have a word in French to call these gibberish languages that sound like real ones but have no meaning. It's called speaking "yogurt". It was originally used because young French people wanted to sing the English songs that they heard, but didn't know the language, so they would make up sounds that looked like English.
This exact thing is called "washawasheo" or "washawashear" in (Mexican) Spanish. It would be cool to know what languages have this, as I'm pretty sure not all of them do (Russian doesn't, for example).