#alien language

BLOO BLOOP BLEE BLEE BLOOP BLEEP BLEEP BLOOP, BLOO BLEEP BLEEP BLEE BLOOP BLOOP

And an alien replies, “Bogos binted?”

And the person makes a face like, “What?”

And then it switches to the opposite where an alien goes, “Zinky zoogle, zeekybooble beeble meep forp bogos binted?”

And the person goes, “Photos printed?”

Then the alien makes a face like, “Zorp?”

Yeah, well, considering the casual nature of the word “hey” (it often being used in casual situations), we could probably discern that “zinky zoogle” is the alien’s language’s equivalent (or near-equivalent considering how language just is) to it — it being a more casual greeting compared to our (or whatever their) “hello” or even “good evening” (would be).

We know “hey” would be both of those words because of the comma, which — based off of this interaction — appears to work at least semi-the same way that English’s do.

For the ending, “zorp” and “what” being synonymous between the two languages is easy; as well as “bogos binted” with “photos printed”. However what about the other ones?

I took similar sounds to try and figure out what was next. “Booble” in the word “zeekybooble” as well as “beeble” have similar sounds — both having [at least English] vowels that end in L E. So I thought maybe they relate to similar concepts.

Looking at the English again, I tried looking for the two words or concepts that were similar and realized that “wondering” and “if you” might be what we’re looking for. (Wondering being the process of thinking, and “if [you]” being a question that could begin a thought process).

Which leaves just two words leftover — “meep” and “forp”, which would then likely mean “got” and “you.” But which one is which??

Considering the minor similarities between this alien language and English (via how commas work; as well as some minor similar sounds between “bogos binted” and “photos printed”) I think t’is safe to say they may in fact go in the same order as the English one. “Meep” meaning “got” and “forp” (which sounds like the word “your”) meaning “your”.

But, about “beeble” and “meep” — which one include the “you” from “if you”? I’ve little doubts that “beeble” refers to the “if” part, and initially I’d included the “you” in that because “If you” is its own phrase. However, “you got” is also its own phrase. This means that “beeble” could just only mean “if” while “meep” means “you got”; or what I had previously written with “if you” and just “got”.

(Honestly I’m leaning toward “meep” meaning “you got” now that I think about it. Can’t explain why well tho).

All in all that means the exact (<although technically not possible when translating languages due to high nuance) translations would look like the following:

“Hey (zinky zoogle), just wondering (zeekybooble) if you (beeble) got (meep) your (forp) photos printed (bogos binted)?”

“Bogos binted (photos printed)?l

“What (vorp)?”

Or, from the alien perspective:

“Zinky zoogle (hey), zeekybooble (just wondering) beeble (if you) meep (got) forp (your) bogos binted (photos printed)?”

“Photos printed (bogos binted)?”

“Vorp (what)?”

Now you might be asking:

“Why did I just read all this post? Why did you write it? What is this for? Why do we need to know the meaning of each individual word/phrase between these languages; one of which is in fact made up for a bit to sound like something an alien would say?”

To which I reply: great questions; completely valid points. I wanted to make a comic with an alien language and this popped into mind, and then I started thinking and examining it to see if I could discern how the language worked.

Do I remember the comic idea after all of this?

No. No, I do not.