Oh yes. From Facebook cat groups my husband and I have incorporated all sorts of ridiculous usages and spellings. Two of our cats are “oramge” and one chews on “plamstic” and they have “blamkies” (blankets). We refer to our male cats as “himb” and females as “hermb.” I would love to see a linguist break down the substitution of the m sound for the n. I don’t do Facebook anymore but yeah, we still talk this way!
That sounds like Hambspeak to me - the mb and the m. Phonetically m and n are similar as they are both voiced nasal consonants. And m can substitute n in words like input. Cats just use it more 😁
I use a lot of meowlogisms when I talk/write about cats. I came across this on Instagram.
It’s totally purrfect that CAT is the acronym for cat speak! Language is definitely such a fascinating part of our sense of belonging. Servants of the feline overlords definitely share a unique bond for sure.
Oh yes. From Facebook cat groups my husband and I have incorporated all sorts of ridiculous usages and spellings. Two of our cats are “oramge” and one chews on “plamstic” and they have “blamkies” (blankets). We refer to our male cats as “himb” and females as “hermb.” I would love to see a linguist break down the substitution of the m sound for the n. I don’t do Facebook anymore but yeah, we still talk this way!
That sounds like Hambspeak to me - the mb and the m. Phonetically m and n are similar as they are both voiced nasal consonants. And m can substitute n in words like input. Cats just use it more 😁
I use a lot of meowlogisms when I talk/write about cats. I came across this on Instagram.
It’s totally purrfect that CAT is the acronym for cat speak! Language is definitely such a fascinating part of our sense of belonging. Servants of the feline overlords definitely share a unique bond for sure.
I agree
I often use double words when I talk to my kitties. For example, slow down eating your food or you're going to pukey, wukey.
OMG I do this too! Always say things to my kitties in repeat. So funny!
Glad that I’m not the only one 😹
pukey wukey is so sweet (the expression not the actual thing :)). 😻
Purr, Purr
I saw a video recently that said people who change their tone/pitch/words for cats are generally more empathetic people.
My mom was convinced our family cat understood Taiwanese. 🤷🏻♀️
But yes I have a language solely for cats which usually involves me impersonating what I think they’d say in English at any given moment 😂
So there: code cat 🐈⬛
How lucky that cat speak requires CAT?!
Really lucky. Coincidence? I am not so sure because cats rule everything