You might really think that gibberish is secret blabber talk or something a 2-month-old infant might say, but in reality it is a "secret language" used by some either for secrecy or just for kicks. If you want to join the conversation, listen up.
Step 1
Break a word down into spoken syllables. Generally, every syllable in a word contains one vowel sound. Here are some words and their syllables:
- tree: tree
- bottle: bot, tle (pronounced tul)
- symmetry: sym (sim), me (meh), try (tree)
Step 2
Add "idig" in before each vowel in a syllable. It will sound something like this:
- tree: tr idig ee
- bottle: b idig ott idig le
- symmetry: s idig ym idig e tr idig y
Step 3
Repeat with every word.
Step 4
Make sure it flows out and feels confortable to say, not choppy or akward.
Step 5
Practice!!! Get out a few old baby books and read them out loud in gibberish.
Tips
- Keep in mind that many versions of Gibberish are slightly different. You may need to learn a new "gibberish dialect" if you want to communicate with some folks. A common variation uses "thg", "diggadee", "ithica", "dither" or "ither" instead of "idiga".
- In some versions, for words that start with vowels: A becomes "adiga", E becomes "edige", I is "idigi", and U is "udigu" :)
- In other versions of gibberish illiga instead of idiga :)
- In Northern England, a popular variation on idiga is iviga(also known as backslang in ireland), thus making "dog" into "divigog" and so forth.
- Another variation is to place the letters "uthug" before each vowel. For example, "hello" would be "huthegelluthego".
- Another variation is to place the letters "ib" before each vowel. For example, "hello" would be "hibellibo".
- "Egg-Language" is another variation except put the word "egg" into every syllable. Take a hike = T(egg)ake (egg)a H(egg)ike. Just remember to pronounce every broken syllalbe as you would normally say it, and not as I spelled it. Example "head" = is pronounced "h(egg)ed"
- Another is "Pig Latin," in which you take the the first letter of the word and put it on the end, then add an "ay" after that. So now "food" would become oodfay. Or "Dog" would be ogday.
- The Swedish equivialent of Gibberish is rövarspråk (robber language). In it, you repeat each consonant in the word, so that "good" becomes "ggoodd", then put an "o" between your consonants, "gogoodod". eg. Hohandod=hand and coclolotothohsose=clothes.
- Other languages can also be turned to Gibberish. Swahili is a good example because most words don't have compound consonants. The added letters are "~rg~". Asking for a glass of water in normal Swahili is "Nataka maji". In gibberish Swahili it becomes "Natargaka margaji". You can try a similar technique in other languages.
- One common version is to add "itherg" after the first letter of each consonant. Example: Bottle becomes bithergottithergul. For a syllable starting with a vowel, replace the "i" in "itherg" with the vowel.changing guy into gigiguy so it would stay the same and for girl it would be gidigirl the same but she would be sidighe
- You could also put "off" after every consonant or consonant combination: Engloffishoff = English
- Try to make up your own language based on gibberish, have fun!
Warnings
- Take your time. If you talk too fast, it will be unintelligible. But if you talk to slow most people will catch on.
- It will be frustrating, but do not give up! After you master it you can take some pride!...
- Remember, you must not say stupid things like 'diddly' like Ned Flanders, because if you do, others are bound to catch on, or people will think you're unoriginal.
- Also, don't tell anyone who you don't want speaking gibberish that you're speaking it. Then THEY could search online and come to this page!
