This is so great - my first experience with this was on a train in Italy. A daughter was teaching her mother English and the mother became frustrated and rambled off some fake English in disgust. The sound was disorienting. It was a moment where I realized how sheltered I'd been (and still am).
"As a neat little exercise, I have compiled a list of videos to show what English sounds like to people around the world. As English speakers, we have a lot of fun imitating what certain languages sound like to us, such as French, Italian, and Chinese.
Italian singer, songwriter, comedian, actor, and tv host Adriano Celentano wrote this amazing in 1972. The video itself is pure eye candy, and the words are what English sounds like to a non-native speaker, and they’re pure gibberish. Celentano has stated that the song is about incommunicability in the modern age, and prisencolinensinainciusol is supposed to stand for “universal love.” Amazing."
via amog.com
I love this.
Posted by: john kellogg | February 11, 2010 at 07:17 PM