Adriano Celentano - Prisencolinensinainciusol

Why HN readers recommended it

It comes up whenever threads touch on fake languages, accents, or gibberish that sounds plausible, and commenters like sharing it with people who haven't heard it.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Le Pietre Rotolanti

Topic

fake english gibberish song

Format

music

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

6

HN mentions in dataset

17

Recommendation years in dataset

2016–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Speaking of gibberish english: I know this has been on YouTube for 10 years, but there are always newcomers who haven't had their brain melted by it: [VIDEO]

• There's a fantastic English-sounding song by an italian singer [VIDEO] Prisencolinensinainciusol by Adriano Celentano. It hurts my brain when I try to pick out meaning from the phenomes.

• The song "Prisencolinensinainciusol" has a similar effect: it's meant to sound exactly like American English to non-native speakers, but is actually just gibberish. Works amazingly well. [VIDEO]