Here’s a short film with two actors who sound like they’re speaking English, but are in fact just mocking what English sounds like to folks who don’t speak it.
YouTuber TheKlaw quips, “Wait, this was in fake English?! I gotta lay off the weed, I understood everything.”
(via Neatorama)
Hands up who thought this was going to be Adriano Celentano
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcUi6UEQh00
I definitively hear them say English words so I am sure they are either English but more likely Americans
ha ha - I thought it would be Celentano too! - also funny how the fake English still manages to have an American accent
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News flash: foreign language incomprehensible to those who don’t understand it. Film at 11.
An incomprehensible script delivered by terrible actors who can only throw their voice as far as their nose and filmed by someone with parkinsons disease.
Looks like a typical modern ITV production to me.
Reminds me of when my friend asked what Talking Heads were singing about in I Zimbra….
I like it. Been asking my foreign friends this for years. Example: as children (or adults) we can imitate say, what Chinese sounds like to us, or make fun of French…any language really. I just want to hear the SOUNDS. This is more use of real english words out of sequence.
Well, it’s not really “fake English” - they’re saying actual words, it’s just the sentences are nonsense. They even use proper English lead-ins and connectors to sentences: i.e. “No, crustacean is trap, I mean, why the crest soldier for the magdalene nation”
etc etc etc.
Still, it’s kind of vaguely neat, I suppose.
This is very interesting. This is exactly how language sounds to me sometimes as a person who lives with ADHD. In fact, the majority of my schooling was like this. Like the adults in a Charlie Brown comic.
I loved it!
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The actress’ name is Fiona Pepper and she doesn’t speak English? Hmmm. Seems unlikely.
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Why, MsLaura? I have a German name, and I was even born in Germany, but I grew up in NZ and do not speak German. I have a Kiwi friend with an Indian mane, she does not speak Hindi. My neighbour has a Spanish name, he does not speak Spanish…
I had never heard of Adriano Celentano until reading his name in these comments today. An hour later I’m doing research using Billboard mags from summer 1970 & there I see an ad for Adriano Celentano…coincidence, I doubt it.
Wow, that was clearly NOT the right time for him to come out of the closet.
In the Dark Ages we called it “doubletalk.” Very big in vaudeville.
I had a French-Canadian girlfriend who became fluent in English while I was never able to learn French. However I could imitate a nonsensical faux-French and she a nonsensical faux-English. If you’ve ever heard Lenny Bruce’s imitation of gangsters talking, that’s what her “English” sounded like. How apropos.
So to a non-native speaker, English sentences sound pretty much like scrambled English sentences?
You know the internet is shit when blogs post items from other blogs, who got the idea from other blogs, who stole the idea from some Italian performer who was doing the same shit more than 30 years ago, only much funnier.
I agree though, who would have guessed that foreign languages sound foreign to non speakers of that language… NEXT!!
This is awesome. I remember watching dutch television and being stunned at how much dutch sounded like nonsense english. (Though it was Amsterdam, and I was jet-lagged.)
check out this argentian humorist sketch… a singer that sings in a “shitty english” with a lot of fake and supposed to be english words… real funny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yPb2RBRVPo
