Twelfth Post!

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POST NAMER TBC-- work harder, meme!

Welcome back, anyway! Chat fandom, media, creative things, weirdness from around the net, funny stuff, anything! Meme awaits!

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Re: Games - Gibberers

[(Anonymous)]

Some example conversations:

MENTOR. I have one-one [two] NUMI.
PLAYER. Is NUMI think-thing [abstract noun]?
MENTOR. NUMI is thing-thing [concrete noun].
MENTOR. Going life-thing [animal] has one-one-one-one [four] NUMI. Going life-thing [animal] has one-one-one-one-one-one [six] NUMI. Water going life-thing [animal] no NUMI.
PLAYER. I know. Is NUMI a LEG?

Of course, this whole conversation happens in the invented language, so the conversation actually sounds something like BIKBIK HOCHI MO-MO NUMI. NUMI POSHA-POSHA.

MENTOR. Like-I [people] use think-sand [computer, drive BUBULA up.
PLAYER. Drive BUBULA big-up-up-up? Cold big-up [space]?
MENTOR. Yes.
PLAYER. BUBULA have I?
MENTOR. No.
PLAYER. I know. Is BUBULA a SATELLITE?

Except, y'know, this conversation actually took twenty minutes and involved a lot of false starts because we had to clarify if it were a rocket, a drone, a weather balloon, or a nuclear warhead.

Re: Games - Gibberers

[(Anonymous)]

Am very jelly! This looks like just my thing!

Re: Games - Gibberers

[(Anonymous)]

It's apparently not easy to find a copy in English! But it's a really simple game, so you can either find a copy in Japanese and do a little translation magic, or invent your own word cards and do your best. Most of the magic comes from the struggle to get your teammates to understand you, after all.