Give me your Simlish names

"CorkysPetals;c-17280369" wrote:

"Nindigo;c-17280042" wrote:
@CorkysPetals Um, just for the sake of clarification - are Simlish names meant to be gibberish-y, or actual and simply funny-sounding/-spelled English ones?

I would say gibberish-y. I think the Simlish language was created to be gibberish for players all over the world, regardless of the languages they speak. Although I suppose gibberish from English speakers will sound different from gibberish created by native Spanish, Mandarin, Swahili speakers.


Any non-native English speakers out there? Does Simlish have an English accent? Care to provide some Simlish gibberish that sounds like it came from your native tongue?

A Dutch friend of mine once said that my language (Norwegian) was gibberish, but I can't even start to imagine sims speaking like we do. I tried to play in my language but just couldn't. Had to change it back to English after 5 minutes. It was so weird when familiar faces didn't have the names I was used to :D

Hey, just imagine the Swedish Chef from the Muppets. I'd say we have pretty much the same accent as the Swedes, maybe they have more of a "singing" tone than we do, though. And the Chef is awesome :D

"DeKay;c-17280500" wrote:
But what even is an accent if you think about it? :) I think an accent becomes more obvious if you hear someone who is a non-native Eng speaker, who then speaks in English. Then, accent becomes more apparent.

Most of what I write is a guess. I have studied different languages, but I'm not very good at any of them. But I have noticed animal sounds are different from language to language, and I assume imaginary words are different from language to language. I imagine that made-up words are based on the normal sounds and syllables from each language.


Dogs say guau-guau, wong-wong, blaf-blaf, meong-meong and how-how in Spanish, Cantonese, Dutch, Korean and Arabic

"Kathykins;c-17280506" wrote:

Hey, just imagine the Swedish Chef from the Muppets. I'd say we have pretty much the same accent as the Swedes, maybe they have more of a "singing" tone than we do, though. And the Chef is awesome :D

But would a Swahili speaker sound the same as a Hebrew speaker when they imitate the Swedish language? Of course, they probably both saw the Swedish Chef and would be imitating him. :D

I... don't know how I could possibly keep playing with "English" names now that this idea has come into my life!

Sursu Manej
Cabuname Luvo
Jureema Shavortek
Reesa Apsomay
Yalah Nabor
Demane Bavril
Ocilandrah Marveau

I literally could just keep making random sounds and it's a Simlish name, I am obsessed!!!!! Bless this post.

Yabbas looblu
Donus Noov
Wala Dah

Jobe Swana
Yibs Dag
Sul Dag
Dag Sul
Awana Nooboo
Iba Gora
Chelcamehzor Yibsee
Meck Chate

Foulois Nib-Gibbon
Whipna Wimfa

I love this! Such a fun idea. Now I want to make a save file full of sims with only Simlish names...

Goriah LeTorb
Shmeeba Falsh
Walta Faloo
Chom Bobee
:D

Floopie Weebda

I hear them say "Stebe" a lot, and that sounds like a name to me, lol.

In my game (and headcanon) the devs had to translate everything from the original Simlish, Since some of the words and names don't have direct translations, the devs had to be creative.

Even the worlds got changed from Old Simlish:


Winna Keek

Oassa Spigs

Granta Palsh

Nukersh