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Reminds me of a song from 1972 by an Italian comedian. The song is called "Prisencolinensinainciusol" which means...well, nothing. It's gibberish. In fact, the

• Waterluvian 6y ago
  It's also a pretty catchy song. But yeah it messes with my brain that is working hard to parse English. It's interesting. If a language is clearly not English I don't have the same issue.
  • wincy 6y ago
    Is English your native language? Because for me at least as a native English speaker I immediately recognize it as gibberish and have no such problem. I’m curious if it’s a native/non-native issue with parsing or not.
    • Waterluvian 6y ago
      Yes it is. I'm a very strong English speaker/listener. I get this in a lot of things. Human brains love finding patterns and everyone does this to an extent. I think mine does it so much more. For example if I ever see numbers anywhere I'm compulsively adding them to see if any nicer looking numbers result. I wouldn't be surprised if this inclination to hear jibberish and try to parse it into language is a me thing.
• oooooooooooow 6y ago
  Adriano Celentano is a singer songwriter, actor, director, screenwriter, composer, film editor and TV author[1]. He definitely has humor and used irony throughout his career, but wouldn't call him a comedian by any stretch. [1] Taken from wikipedia
  • SftwreEngnr 6y ago
    Thanks for your contribution to this discussion.