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Bello! Why gen Alpha subconsciously speaks the language of the Minions (opens in new tab)

From global loanwords and garbled Italian, the slang of the children of millennials doesn’t just share elements with Minionese – it may have absorbed itI was four years old when was released in cinemas and the banana-coloured, overall-clad Minions took the world by storm. By the time I was seven, my siblings and I were using to teach ourselves Minionese.Minionese is, of course, the made-up language spoken by Kevin, Stuart, Bob and company, which consists of a combination of and variations on ...

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