Metaphysics & Psychology

This is what English sounds like to someone who doesn't speak English

By T.K. Randall
February 1, 2025

Image: AI-generated (Midjourney) For those of us who speak English but don't speak any other languages, the confusing experience of listening to someone talking in French, Spanish or German is likely all too familiar.

But how can someone who does speak English experience what their own language might sound like to someone who doesn't understand it at all ?

It turns out that there is a way to find out - as demonstrated in a video from 2021 in which TikTok user @languagesimp demonstrates a very strange form of English that seems familiar in one respect, but is complete nonsense in another.

You can check out his video - here.For those who cannot access TikTok or who would like to see another example, below is a YouTube video entitled "Skwerl" that essentially demonstrates the same thing.

In it, a couple can be heard conversing over dinner, but despite sounding as though they are speaking English, their sentences are in fact total gibberish.

The effect is quite strange - you can understand the individual words but not the context.

Some have likened it to the fictional language spoken in The Sims video game franchise.

What do you make of it ?


Source: Lad Bible

Tags: English, Language