If you’ve ever played any of the Sims games, you know that the characters “speak” in a series of sounds including pitch, cadence and vocal tone to indicate emotion.<\/p>\n
<\/strong><\/a>muscle_boy<\/a><\/strong> just asked me if I speak Simlish[1]<\/a>.\u00a0 I thought about it and commented I didn\u2019t think Simlish was really a language as we generally define it.\u00a0 While it does convey a rather interesting nuance of emotion, there are neither nouns nor verbs, so one cannot describe objects nor one\u2019s relationship to them in Simlish.<\/p>\n Language wonks?\u00a0 I\u2019m curious about your opinion of this.\u00a0 Can a language be a language if it only conveys emotional state, but cannot describe the physical world?<\/p>\n If you’ve ever played any of the Sims games, you know that the characters “speak” in a series of sounds including pitch, cadence and vocal tone to indicate emotion. muscle_boy just asked me if I speak Simlish[1].\u00a0 I thought about it and commented I didn\u2019t think Simlish was really a language as we generally define … <\/p>\n
[1]<\/a> He knows I pick up languages pretty easily, even invented languages from movies.\u00a0 Yes, I understand Huttese, Elvish and Klingon.\u00a0 By the Return of the King, I did not have to read the subtitles to understand the Elvish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"