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How to speak Obish

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Learn this easy language game that will allow you to speak to friends privately in
front of almost anyone. They won't understand a word!

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Step 1: Obish
Obish (or Obby Dobby, or Pig Greek) is a simple gibberish language game whos
public knowledge seems to have faded. You can use this to your advantage, and
have "private" conversations with people right in front of someone you wouldn't
normally talk in front of.

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Playing this "game" well will make your speech near-unintelligible to people who
don't know the trick to understanding this method of speech. To people who
understand, your speech will come in loud and clear!
Please, remember that this mode of speech isn't unknown, it's just not widely
known. So conferring "privately" with someone in front of a car salesman (who
will likely know all the secret languages) or involving truly serious matters is not

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Step 2: How to speak Obish

Obish is extremely easy to learn, and with a little practice, and a few tricks, you'll
be speaking quickly enough for people to be unable to decipher your
conversations.
When pronouncing words, simply add "ob" before every vowel sound.

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The pronounciations included dashes for help pronouncing, they do not imply a
pause. Quite conversely, you must try to pronounce the sounds as close
together as you can. If you take your time and sound the sylables out, people
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>This guy's boring, help me out of this!

>Thob-iss gob-eye's bob-o-robing, hob-elp mob-ee obout (like "about"
with an "o") ob-of thobis!

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I can't imagine there's much else to say, except that once you get used to
speaking like this, you'll be able to speak it without even thinking.

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08motooley (/member/08motooley/)

or of course you could just say their name, since names aren't normally translated
when you are speaking a different language, that wouldn't give it away either

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What's the one where you insert "ma" and repeat syllables in short words?
"Tubamaba, Viomalin, Obomoboe- Saxamaphone"
I think it was favoured by Sara Cox...

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lol my band teacher says

all the time

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Back in about 1955 we called this "Double Dutch." Usually we learned it just
after Pig Latin got too easy.

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Close, but since it's only for

vowel sounds, and not just
vowels, you don't need the
extra "ob" for the "u" in
"yourself." It would be closer to
"yob-or-sob-elf."

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this is cool
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excellent use of the fallout guy

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Sobeems sobortoba usefobul, but

substitute different
sounds when talking in front of
someone who knows this. For
example, Ebish, or Abish.

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My first thought was "Mushmouth" from "Fat Albert"... though he used "ba" as in
howba arba youba?"

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I got pretty good at that too.

Zoom's been replaced by
Dragonfly now though.

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I used to speak Ubi-Dubbi. Its the same thing but you say ub instead of ob. It
was on a TV show called Zoom. I was pretty good at it. Maybe I should
re-learn it XD

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My grandfather and I used to do this when I was a kid. I had forgotten all
about it. Thanks for reminding me.

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In Spanish you can do this, but just by adding a letter instead of ob, "Hablar
con la F", that is what i would call it when i spoke with F, i can speak faster in
spanish and the letter F between every vowl sound, than i do normally in
english (i am completely bi-lingual, but i speak spanish faster because after
all, it is the fastest spoken langage in the world). the only objection that i have
with this is that althought it tends to throw people off more, the b sound at the
end makes it harder for the words to flow.

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That's the beauty of the

language; the b sound forces
a phonetic pause, so while it
does make it harder to say
fast, it breaks up words to
throw people off more. "friday
night" doesn't sound like
"frobidobay nobight," It
sounds like "frob idob aynob
ite". It throws off the cadence.
It's just one way to throw
people off, high speed is
another.

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But the B is before a vowel so it still flows for me

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