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  • #16
    Originally posted by Barnabas View Post
    Faux English, An Italian singing gibberish meant to sound like English

    sounds like american english

    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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    • #17
      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"

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      • #18
        Despair Italians! Despair!



        @Foot: Your Video doesnt exist :/ is it this: ?
        Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!

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        • #19
          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.
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          • #20
            Originally posted by Barnabas View Post
            It is true, all non english speakers would mistakenly think that the italian guy singing gibberish is singing in English.
            He sounded pretty good at it, actually.

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            • #21
              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.
              No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.

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              • #22
                To us, it is the BEAST.

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                • #23
                  Was watching TV and was reminded of this thread...

                  One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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                  • #24
                    Cool (OP)

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