furbish

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Though they’re programmed to start speaking in Furbish — a language that was inspired by the Japanese, Thai, Chinese and Hebrew that Furby co-creator David Hampton learned during his time in the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2023

The Furbish doesn’t quite track, I will say.

From Slate • Apr. 30, 2021

That seems to have happened to mine; thanks to the companion iPhone app that translates Furbish to English, I gathered that a lot of her responses include the phrase “OMG!”

From Slate • Dec. 14, 2012

Instead, the Furby "learns" to speak English, and it can teach a child Furbish, concocted by Hampton from Japanese, Thai, Hebrew and Mandarin Chinese.

From Time Magazine Archive

Furbish, which had been buried near Sam Poffenberger’s.

From Joseph K. F. Mansfield, Brigadier General of the U.S. Army A Narrative of Events Connected with His Mortal Wounding at Antietam, Sharpsburg, Maryland, September 17, 1862 by Gould, John Mead