Claim: Italian singer Adriano Celentano released a song in the 1970s with nonsense lyrics meant to sound like American English. Rating: About this rating TrueOn May 5, 2024, a post emerged on Reddit, reading, "Italian singer Adriano Celentano released a song in the 70s with nonsense lyrics meant to sound like American English, apparently to prove Italians would like any English song. Adriano Celentano's 1972 song "Prisencolinensinainciusol" was, in fact, a deliberate attempt to create a song with nonsense lyrics that sounded like American English to an Italian audience. While the lyrics of "Prisencolinensinainciusol" are complete gibberish, Celentano composed them to mimic the way English sounds to non-English speakers, specifically imitating an American accent. But is that really what American English sounds like?

Source: The Guardian May 11, 2024 02:10 UTC