Talk:Gibberish (game)

Geographical variation
Can we have some information on which regions of the country prefer the different varieties of Gibberish, or is the distribution completely random? Where I went to grade school, in Bergen County, New Jersey, the "atheg" variant was by far the best-known, although it was written "uthag." In the Midwest, "idig"-Gibberish is better known, although in the Deep South, Pig Latin is the most popular and Gibberish is relatively unknown. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.27.208.38 (talk) 23:51, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Who speaks it regularly?
Who actually speaks this stuff anyways? you'll be suprised? You're probably not going to go up to a stranger and start speaking gibberish but there are people who do. It's actually way less complicated than English(if you know how to speak it right)! it is actually very funny to go up to some random person and start speaking gibberish. They may look at you like you are crazy but that is the best part! Yo, today 19:27, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

I've heard little 1st to 5th graders speaking it. --Praesentius 19:49, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

me and my friends all speak the "dag" version to each other...not only for like fun but also if we have to say something privately. its not that hard once you get the hang of it. whenever im out somewhere or at school and me and my friends start speaking it, it annoys them so bad there always like oh my gosh shut up or speak english gosh and me and my friendas just laugh and laugh and laugh somemore! --> —Preceding unsigned comment added by Absolutelystupendous (talk • contribs) 18:31, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

oh by the way...for the region thing...i live near west palm beach, florida —Preceding unsigned comment added by Absolutelystupendous (talk • contribs) 18:33, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

My mother and auntie used to speak the version detailed in the article under V(r) V + g, when they didn't want us to know what they were talking about - my eldest sister learned to understand it, but not speak it, my next oldest sister soon learnt it, my brother taught it to me in about ten seconds and I taught it to my two youngest sisters - next time my mam and my auntie held a conversation in that language, we understood every word!

Arthurvasey (talk) 13:57, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

searching gibberish
I think the there is only one glaring problem with this page and that's its title. If you were to search "gibberish" this page would never come up so I strongly reccomend playing with the title slighty so that it is more easily found. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.238.234.196 (talk) 04:42, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Some Thoughts
Maybe it should be combined with Pig_Latin or Ubbi_dubbi? It seems to me that someone thinks that all word play games and contrived languages should be tagged for deletion. To me there is some significance to created languages even if tthey are only spoken by teenagers to obscure what they are saying from each other or their parents. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.99.204.28 (talk) 09:01, 9 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Might want to make that case at the AfD. I don't agree that all conlangs should be deleted since some are notable, but I find no evidence that this one is. Travellingcari (talk) 17:17, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

I ithegenjithegoy-yay ithegixitheging-may ithegig-pay ithegatithegin-lay ithegith-way "-ithegithithegeg-ay" ithegibbithegerithegish-gay. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.59.157.62 (talk) 21:30, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

more info
If this article to remain, perhaps prudent to merge with argot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argot Mydogtrouble (talk) 18:09, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

tr@nsl@t@ng @ from the G@rm@n
In the list of similar games in other languages/countries, a number of the items use the at sign (@) in their infixes. To my knowledge this is not a letter in any of these languages' alphabets. At first I thought it must be an ASCII attempt at a schwa, but then I saw the German infix: »Löffelsprache – infix "@ləf"«. So what is it? Repetition of preceding vowel? Or just... gibberish... ? Speaking of which, think how many more articles enwiki could boast if each of these "languages" had its own page! No. Forget I said that. --Haruo (talk) 14:52, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

Lack of sources for over a decade?
The vast majority of this article is unsourced, at best it's original research, at worst it may be near hoax. Someone has edited this page to make it a "vital article" and most edits seem to be more like childish vandalisms. I delete some of the unsourced content but User:Ooh Saad would rather see another decades old maintenance tag. Pinging them here to discuss why keep so much unsourced material for so long. Ifnord (talk) 02:46, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

"Gibberish language" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Gibberish language. The discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 June 9 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Seventyfiveyears (talk) 00:52, 9 June 2021 (UTC)