Did She Just Say That?

"GirlFromIpanema;c-18003091" 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.