Prisencolinensinainciusol - how English might sound to non-English speakers - General

I can't remember how I found this but a couple days ago I came upon this video. I believe it's by an Italian composer who made it in the 70s to simulate how English sounds to people who don't speak it (if the song is any indication, it sounds AWESOME). Before you ask, the song isn't in any language, it's just gibberish sung in an American accent so as to give the illusion of English. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcUi6UEQh00[/media]

That's awesome. Randomly I think that I recognize a word. but it's just more gibberish.

I've always wondered what we sound like to foreign people.

That's very interesting.

I approve this video.

That's pretty awesome.

This doesn't make sense, we sound exactly the same to people who don't speak english. It's just that they don't know what the words mean. I guess this video is just for those people who can't understand that. Still cool though. [B]EDIT:[/B]But that's not the purpose of this video, I guess if you didn't speak it you probably wouldn't be able to tell this apart from real english though.

That was seriously trippy. I have always tried imagining what english sounds like to someone who doesn't speak it, but this gives the most amazing example I've ever heard. Plus that song fucking rocked. [QUOTE=pokeman;18000250]This doesn't make sense, we sound exactly the same to people who don't speak english. It's just that they don't know what the words mean. I guess this video is just for those people who can't understand that. Still cool though.[/QUOTE] Yes, but the point is that it is supposed to make the illusion that these are English words that you don't understand.

Haha sounds great.

Ahaha awesome.

[QUOTE=pokeman;18000250]This doesn't make sense, we sound exactly the same to people who don't speak english. It's just that they don't know what the words mean. I guess this video is just for those people who can't understand that. Still cool though. [B]EDIT:[/B]But that's not the purpose of this video, I guess if you didn't speak it you probably wouldn't be able to tell this apart from real english though.[/QUOTE] Wrong. Before I learned German, everything sounded slurry and fluid. Now everything sounds sharp, rough and easy to make out certain patterns. I don't know a word of French and French sounds like a lazy mess to me. [editline]02:17AM[/editline] The point of the song is that it actually does sound like it's meant to be English, it's like when you listen to the radio and you can't make out a single word out to a song that you like but you can easily tell that it is English.

This is like something that can't be imagined. It's awesome.

[QUOTE=pokeman;18000250]This doesn't make sense, we sound exactly the same to people who don't speak english. It's just that they don't know what the words mean. I guess this video is just for those people who can't understand that. Still cool though. [/QUOTE] It's called perception; what you hear might as well be a completely different sound to others.

Those are some wicked hip movements.

How does this....:psyduck:

Oh so that's how it sounds like...

:bravo2:

That's fucking awesome. Where can I get the .mp3?

Fair enough, I guess since I don't speak a second language I'm not qualified to be here. I shall take my wrong-ness else where :downs:

I have to say it sounds like a very odd language, it definately stands out.

Whoa do we look that cool dancing to foreigners too?

:iia:

[QUOTE=Perfumly;18000962]Whoa do we look that cool dancing to foreigners too?[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://i34.tinypic.com/30u3ghz.jpg[/IMG]

This shows just how little English flows as compared to other languages.

[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;18001011][IMG]http://i34.tinypic.com/30u3ghz.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] My favorite part.

The dancing is my favourite.

[QUOTE=Perfumly;18000962]Whoa do we look that cool dancing to foreigners too?[/QUOTE] Congratulations that's the hardest I've laughed all day

I heard asinine and carbon emissions in that.

It's like simlish

joke's on you guys, it was actually in jive