Uhh... (NDR)

[tarheels]

Now, I'm an only child, so maybe that's part of the reason this is weird to me, but I give this poster maybe the biggest WTF I've ever given anyone on the internet.

"What do you think when you hear the baby name Calla?"

<insert the typical responses about the flower>

"Calla reminds me of my DH and his little sister's made-up language.  It
is part of what my husband tells the dog when the cats are starting to
misbehave."



1) You used present tense.  Your profile says you were married 4/24/06, so even if you got married at 18, that means you're 25.  Your 25+ year old husband still speaks in a made-up language to his sister?!

2) You admit to it publicly!?

3) Your husband has a conversation with the dogs about the cats?!

Proof that I really and truly copied it verbatim as she wrote it: community.thenest.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/72235746.aspx

[thewop]

I'm one of four and that still gets a big "um WTF" from me. Definitely weird.

[emoflamingo]

^I am one of four as well and I'm actually made this face:

[Deleted]

I'm one of 3. H is one of 6. We both have really large extended families.

It gets a big WTF from me as well.

I mean we have a few made up, in jest running joke words, but a full on language I use in every day life...ummm...no.

[TBM]

My kids had a made up language, but they have both forgotten it. They haven't lived in the same house or city in over 15 yrs, and had stopped using it long before that. Whenever they are together they try to remember some of it.  ETA:  They read a lot of books where the kids had a secret language and got the idea from that.


Am I the only weirdo who talks to their pets? I won't use the word conversation, since it is very one sided. ;p

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Feb 24, 2013 15:29:59 GMT -5 TBM said:

My kids had a made up language, but they have both forgotten it. They haven't lived in the same house or city in over 15 yrs, and had stopped using it long before that. Whenever they are together they try to remember some of it.  ETA:  They read a lot of books where the kids had a secret language and got the idea from that.


Am I the only weirdo who talks to their pets? I won't use the word conversation, since it is very one sided. ;p

I talk to cows all of the time! Barn cats too. I think it's pretty normal to do so. Talking to animals in a made up language..probably not so much.

[315]

I talk to pets but only in languages like English or Spanish or Polish. Twins sometimes have their own language. I am not sure I've ever heard of it between other siblings.

[bethaboo]

I talk to my pets, but in English (sometimes in the only Spanish words I know) so I don't think that's weird.

However, my siblings (and actually cousins) and I have a few words that generally only make sense to us (like we use "karumba" instead of sex). I still use them but not in my adult life - only when around my family - and admitting it in this thread is making me uncomfortable.

[TBM]

Feb 24, 2013 16:03:28 GMT -5 mintchocochip said:

My brother and I used to PRETEND to talk another language but we never actually HAD another language and at this point in our lives we don't use the pretend language anymore because, it was pretend and meant nothing. I talk to animals in English, because it's a real language that I speak. That girl and her H and SIL are weird.

 Just playing devil's advocate, but if you and your brother had created a language that meant something to you, and you could use it to communicate, then wouldn't that make it a real language to you and your brother?

The secret language is a second language to him.  It is something he and his sister used to communicate.  It isn't like he is trying to talk to other people using iit....he's talking to his dog. 

[kristilynnmy]

I one of two and just about everyone I know didn't have a made up language. Weirdo

[pitterwoo]

file under overshare and off topic. I bet her H would love that she managed to mention his secret language that he uses to talk to the dog in a conversation about opinions of a name.

[TBM]

Feb 24, 2013 21:05:54 GMT -5 mintchocochip said:

Feb 24, 2013 19:42:53 GMT -5 TBM said:

 Just playing devil's advocate, but if you and your brother had created a language that meant something to you, and you could use it to communicate, then wouldn't that make it a real language to you and your brother?

The secret language is a second language to him.  It is something he and his sister used to communicate.  It isn't like he is trying to talk to other people using iit....he's talking to his dog. 

Haha no, there were no "words" we just spoke gibberish to each other and pretended to converse like, "blah blah blah blah?" "oy, ya ga ga ga ga" but really were just pretending to converse and thought we were super cool.  We'd do it in public when people could overhear and think we were multilingual geniuses...but we just ended up sounding like idiots.  

LOL.  That made me think of the show Taxi, and how Latka and Simka talked.  Andy Kaufman and Carol Kane were hilarious.

That is how we used to 'speak Spanish'.