Talk:Gibberish (language game)

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This article was nominated for deletion on 6 February 2008. The result of the discussion was keep.

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.

[edit] Who speaks it regularly?

Who actually speaks this stuff anyways? You're probably not going to go up to a stranger and start speaking gibberish. It's actually more complicated than English! And English is one of the hardest languages to learn. I suppose it would be funn to speak it though, and funny to go up to some random person and start speaking gibberish. Then again, they'd probably think you're nuts - if you did it. 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 "idig" 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...and once you get one version, its pretty simple to pick up the other types...like im starting to learn ubbi dubbi —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 houston, texas —Preceding unsigned comment added by Absolutelystupendous (talk • contribs) 18:33, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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)