Rather than choosing to allow the Minions to speak English, the existence of Minionese sets Minions and humans apart, and enforces the master–slave relationship between them in the movie-albeit in a family-friendly manner. But again, this is refutable, because we don’t know if the minions are simply responding to their physical actions and emotions, or if they have been engineered or taught to understand English.
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Nefario, and his kids, do not seem to share this understanding-though we’ll never know for sure! On the other hand, the Minions arguably show full comprehension of English as they are able to carry out Gru’s commands accordingly and also physically respond to what Dr. It appears that this ability manifests itself only in Gru, because his assistant, Dr. Today, there are even apps (like Minionator, Bananie, and Minion Translator) that help translate Minion dialogue.Īlthough Minionese is largely incomprehensible to us, the Minions’ conversations with their owner, Gru, show that both parties can understand each other perfectly well. While the movies have made attempts to accompany the Minions’ jabbering with comprehensive actions, these are also aided by proper subtitling of their language. It’s also interesting to note that the Minions have typical English names such as Stuart, Kevin and Bob. The directors added that Minionese may not be linguistically or syntactically coherent, and that it’s based more on random sounds and rhythms. However, Mionionese does not seem to have a grammatical structure, as the Minions tend to only blurt short phrases. The Minions are also known to use English in their speech, such as “OK”, “potato”, “idiot”, and even phonological variants like bapple (for ‘apple’) and bello (for ‘hello’). Fans have also noted the repeated use of words that appear to embody specific meanings throughout the movies, such as ba-boy (‘toy’), bi-do (‘I’m sorry’), para tú (‘for you’), and la boda (‘marriage’). Some of these examples include tara tropa (Filipino for ‘come on guys’), chatool (Hebrew for ‘cat’), hai-bo (phonologically similar to ‘hajmo’, which means ‘let’s go’ in Croatian and Serbian), kanpai (Japanese for ‘let’s toast’), and even counting to three in Korean. Many have noticed that several Minionese terms originated from languages like Spanish, Filipino, Korean, and Mandarin Chinese. However, some reports and fans are asserting that a good number of the words are translatable and actually do make sense. In an interview, the directors claimed that they didn’t actually construct a language, and alleged that Minionese is just gibberish. Some famous examples include Quenya and Sindarin in the Lord of the Rings universe the Valyrian languages in Game of Thrones Bordurian in The Adventures of Tintin and more recently, Na’vi in Avatar. The use of constructed languages is not uncommon, however, as there are actually many movies and literature that specially create languages for the purpose of realising a fictional community. The directors of the massively popular Despicable Me series, Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud, have labelled their language “Minionese”, but it’s more popularly known as “Banana Language”-after one of their signature pet phrases.
Many believe these beloved, simple-minded homunculi speak gibberish, but few know the linguistic legitimacy of what they’re saying.
In light of the upcoming release of the Minions movie-or it might already be released, depending on where you are-I think it would be apt to discuss the intriguing world of these yellow, banana-like creatures and their language.
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