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Apr 11, 2010 15:18

This has amused my linguist friends enough that I thought I'd share it here.

Gibberish rock song written by Italian composer to sound like English

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yakshaver April 12 2010, 04:56:45 UTC
That's fantastic. Not least for breathing new life into that wonderful old comic trope, foreign-sounding gibberish. (There was actually a term of art (which sadly I've forgotten) among mid 20th Century British comedians for the skill of improvising a stream of German-sounding gibberish.)

They really totally nailed it. I found myself, in spite of knowing better, trying to extract words from the sound, just as I often to the first few times I hear real (ostensibly) English-language rock songs.

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