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Sul Sul! Behind the gibberish language of The Sims

Twenty Thousand Hertz

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The Sims - A Game of Sims City

E a games saw the potential in will's idea and gave him the money he needed to make it. They settled on the name the sims, which is short for simulated people. The designers still hadn't decided what the characters would sound like. Instead of using an existing language they decided to just make one up. It was called simlish. At first they tried blending sounds from different languages together. We tried mixing up some languages that we knew a little bit of. One was with eucranian, oteberepote huro seldi. That's clear curtain on the sims.

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