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Uploaded on Dec 17, 2009

Prisecolinensinenciousol, a parody by Adriano Celentano for the Italian TV programme Mileluci is sung entirely in gibberish designed to sound like American English.

If you've ever wondered what other people think Americans sound like, this is it.

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  • gabethedizzle

    gabethedizzle 2 weeks ago

    Go home English, you're drunk!

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  • RadkeMaiden

    RadkeMaiden 1 week ago

    This is such a profound song. Luckily I'm American, so I can understand it.

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  • Christopher Dorner

    Christopher Dorner 42 minutes ago

    how is this gibberish? Im american and I can understand it fine, talks about the scale of popularity in public schools

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  • genesisgamerfan

    genesisgamerfan 1 hour ago

    Sorry, friend. I was trying to cover all bases on this topic. I was telling this to the previous comment and wanted to make sure it got through.

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    in reply to EkiAku (Show the comment)
  • ariglb

    ariglb 1 hour ago

    Gross I can't watch anymore 0:45 seconds in

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  • Zykyris

    Zykyris 5 hours ago

    What did it say then? I want to know.

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    in reply to Paul Trefethen (Show the comment)
  • EkiAku

    EkiAku 14 hours ago

    ...yes I know? I was giving examples of what the gibberish would be.

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  • secretagentcandy

    secretagentcandy 1 day ago

    It is a pretty good song though

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  • CoinHunters50

    CoinHunters50 1 day ago

    Can someone make this in reverse?

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  • purplepenguin1734

    purplepenguin1734 1 day ago

    The sims?!?

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  • Paul Trefethen

    Paul Trefethen 1 day ago

    is it weird that i understood every word that was sung? lol

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  • Alex Chin

    Alex Chin 2 days ago

    Indiana jesus freak posted a really good interpretation of the song below. Its surprisingly accurate.

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