Re:Animal Crossing’s fake language sounds different in Japanese
by proper_black on Thursday December 24, 2020 @11:01PM
(#25534078)
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).
Re:Animal Crossing’s fake language sounds different in Japanese
by ryanschneider on Thursday December 24, 2020 @11:32PM
(#25534214)
Reminds me of the (supposed?) etymology of “barbarian”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarian
> The Greeks used the term barbarian for all non-Greek-speaking peoples, including the Egyptians, Persians, Medes and Phoenicians, emphasizing their otherness. According to Greek writers, this was because the language they spoke sounded to Greeks like gibberish represented by the sounds "bar..bar..;"
Re:Animal Crossing’s fake language sounds different in Japanese
by ta1234567890 on Friday December 25, 2020 @12:07AM
(#25534350)
And a band made a hit song in Spanish about it in the early 2000s, Asereje: https://youtu.be/V0PisGe66mY
Re:Animal Crossing’s fake language sounds different in Japanese
by grey_earthling on Friday December 25, 2020 @05:01AM
(#25535500)
This song is loosely a cover of Rapper's Delight.
Re:Animal Crossing’s fake language sounds different in Japanese
by johncoltrane on Friday December 25, 2020 @04:42AM
(#25535421)
Interesting, I have never heard the expression "chanter en yaourt" used for anything other than fake English.
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.