Speaking Simlish/Playing With

Basic Trope: Characters in a video game speak voice-acted gibberish instead of actual language.

• Straight: Everybody speaks a gibberish language.
• Exaggerated: Everybody speaks using inhuman sounds.
• Justified: The game takes place in a different world, where languages share nothing in common with our world's languages.
• Inverted: Everyone, even babies, speaks perfect English. Aliens too!
• Subverted: The characters are speaking an actual language, just not the same one as the text of the game.
• Double Subverted: The language was one constructed purposely for the game, and isn't very complete outside the game dialogue.
• Parodied: This trope... in a Sitcom.
• Deconstructed: The setting acknowledges that the charters have no verbal language and have to resort to signing to communicate.
• Reconstructed: Characters manage to convey information through the tone of speech rather through the meaning of words.
• Zig Zagged: The first game had no voice acting. The sequel game tried to add voice, but due to audio compression it was entirely unintelligible. The third game turned this into full-out Speaking Simlish, but during development a second team started remaking the first game with full voice acting.
• Averted: The game is fully voiced in English. (Alternately, the game has no voice acting at all.)
• Enforced: "We want to add voice acting to this game, but there's not enough memory to hold all the lines."
• Lampshaded: "It's a good thing we have these text boxes, otherwise I'd have no idea what you're saying!"
• Invoked: "Hey, I don't feel like talking today, so let's just make funny sounds and pretend they mean something!"
• Defied: ???
• Discussed: "What a fascinating language, you can say a million different things with the same five phrases."
• Conversed: ???
• Played For Laughs: Simlish is used in a very dramatic scene.
  • Some Simlish words sound like rude English slang.

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F'ytei m'tb e Speaking Simlish.

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