Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Two syllables that sound like a wave across the garden fence. Fans use it as the password of the whole franchise: say it to another Sims player and the reply is automatic. It also shows how Simlish works, carrying meaning through tone and context and not through any dictionary, and the phrase was happily reassigned from goodbye to hello as the series grew.
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In context
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"Sul sul" is the greeting of Simlish, the nonsense language Maxis built for The Sims. Simlish was first used in SimCopter (1996), but The Sims (2000) gave it far more speech, voiced by Gerri Lawlor and Stephen Kearin. In that first game the phrase was not yet a hello: it was used only as a goodbye, and only by adult Sims leaving for work. From The Sims 2 on it covers both greeting and farewell, and Wikipedia likens it to the Hawaiian aloha.
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- The Sims Wiki: SimlishAppearances in The Sims, The Sims 2Reference checked
- Wikipedia: SimlishGreetingsReference checked
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