Reply With QuoteIf that's true, it's stupid.
Faux English, An Italian singing gibberish meant to sound like English
sounds like american english
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If that's true, it's stupid.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
"Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead
Well, that's 2 minutes of my life I'll never get back again.
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It is true, all non english speakers would mistakenly think that the italian guy singing gibberish is singing in English.
I need a foot massage
It's called "assume" in English. You know what they say about assuming...
Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
"Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead
when your coloured boss died
I know the word assume, assume is a latinate word, asumir in spanish. But what do they say about assuming?
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"When you assume, you take a grave risk that you may be incorrect and that may paint all in attendance in a poor light"
Assume. Makes an ass out of u and me.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
"Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead
Wow, that's dumb. My version is better.
No, you assume that it's better.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
"Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead
At 1:20, he messes up... his Italian-ness comes out. Notice how he pronounces syllables right there.
"Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi
What the hell? Was this a hit or something?
"Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi
Yes. He has way less energy now.
Not me. Just you.Originally Posted by SlowwHand
I live in Canada, which is a totalitarian state. - Ben Kenobi
I thought we're trying to have a serious discussion? It says serious in the thread title!- Al. B. Sure
I'm not going to use up my limited bandwidth watching that, but I'm sure Charlie Chaplin's preemptive "retort" in Modern Times was funnier. You can probably find that on youtube as well, I think it's the one time he sang onscreen.
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take this Italians
Socrates: "Good is That at which all things aim, If one knows what the good is, one will always do what is good." Brian: "Romanes eunt domus"
GW 2013: "and juistin bieber is gay with me and we have 10 kids we live in u.s.a in the white house with obama"
Despair Italians! Despair!
@Foot: Your Video doesnt exist :/ is it this: ?
Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
With effort, I can actually force my brain not to find meaning in the words I hear. Then I hear English the way non-native speakers do.
He sounded pretty good at it, actually.
I agree with Lori and Kuci. I found that my brain was attempting to parse the non-words. It was...disturbing. But cool. But also disturbing.
I encountered this a few years ago, and looked further into it. The guy was an Italian pop icon who was a big fan of American music (especially Elvis), but was unhappy that many Italians were following American music without bothering to understand what was actually being sung, instead listening to it because it was fashionable to do so.
He made up this faux-english song to tweak them, and much to his chagrin it became a smash hit.
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