Smudge has a whole language - his "just chatting' is an Ek or an Enh, "Welcome Home" or "I Love You" is a voiced purr/meow like "Brrrrrr!" or "Mrrrrraaaak!" and sometimes he seems to be attempting Egyptian ("Mneh" or "Eh-ak") or some boreal tongue ("Ikka-brr" or "Enga-mah") and when he gets excited he says "EE-kah!" like his voice is changing or "Meow-wow!"

The funnniest thing he ever said was, one day, he said "ik-ik-ik" and I said, "You sound like a dolphin." Smudge replied, clear as day and sounding rather proud of himself, "I am!"

Love, Columbine