Originally posted by Robtard
"All right" isn't complete gibberish, you ass.
Did you watch the video, you idiot?
You should have watched the video, you douche.
Then you could have seen what they were saying, you moron.
I used a screenshot so you could tell what they were saying, you dummy.
Look at how I mocked you while also making each sentence successively longer, you shithead.
Originally posted by Robtard
Regardless of how they spell it, the "all right" is pronounced in proper English and therefore not "gibberish", so you were still wrong and you're still an ass, you ass.
No, it is pronounced, "oll raigth" which is not "all right." 🙂 Listen carefully. Go ahead, go back, listen. You'll hear it. 🙂
Regardless, it is really not something you should get hung up, on.
"OMG, guys, it's totally not all gibberish!"
Oh man, you've totally undermined the entire point Adriano Celentano's satire. Now it's just a normal song! Yippee!
It's all gibberish, by the way. 😉 Any words you want to hear are words you want to hear and not actually words.
Here you go, buddy:
http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=164206468
"Ever since I started singing, I was very influenced by American music and everything Americans did. So at a certain point, since I like American slang - which, for a singer, is much easier to sing than to sing in Italian - I thought that I would write a song which would only have as its theme the inability to communicate. And to do this, I had to write a song where the lyrics didn't mean anything."
Two post and you failed to type: "Ah, you're right again, Robtard. The song isn't fully gibberish, just the vast majority is."
The song is deliberately meant to sound to its intended Italian audience like English spoken with an American accent, but the lyrics are actually pure gibberish, with the exception of the words "all right", spelled in the internet-posted video as "oll raigth".[1] Celentano's intention with the song was to explore communications barriers. "Ever since I started singing, I was very influenced by American music and everything Americans did. So at a certain point, because I like American slang — which, for a singer, is much easier to sing than Italian — I thought that I would write a song which would only have as its theme the inability to communicate. And to do this, I had to write a song where the lyrics didn't mean anything."[2] -Link
Originally posted by Robtard
Two post and you failed to type: "Ah, you're right again, Robtard. The song isn't fully gibberish, just the vast majority is."The song is deliberately meant to sound to its intended Italian audience like English spoken with an American accent, but the lyrics are actually pure gibberish, with the exception of the words "all right", spelled in the internet-posted video as "oll raigth".[1] Celentano's intention with the song was to explore communications barriers. "Ever since I started singing, I was very influenced by American music and everything Americans did. So at a certain point, because I like American slang — which, for a singer, is much easier to sing than Italian — I thought that I would write a song which would only have as its theme the inability to communicate. And to do this, I had to write a song where the lyrics didn't mean anything."[2] -Link
You didn't cite your source from Wikipedia:
Kroes, Rob (1993). Cultural Transmissions and Receptions: American Mass Culture in Europe. Austin Tex.: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. p. 147. ISBN 978-90-5383-207-3.
I don't think you know what a Primary Source vs. a Secondary Source means. Since I quoted the primary source, you know...the person who actually wrote the song, his interpretation is higher than a secondary opinion. Read this to get a better understanding of why you were wrong from the beginning:
http://www.princeton.edu/~refdesk/primary2.html
So you should have typed, "My bad, dadudemon. I shouldn't use wikipedia for my sources." after I cited that primary source from NPR.
I'll give you a hint: when this song was posted on reddit, the same argument was had until that primary source was found. You're not the first person on the internet to try and claim it was something other than "complete gibberish." There is always that guy: unnecessary and even incorrect pedantry.
Edit - What you're doing is similar to students at UCLA told Ray Bradbury was wrong with his interpretation about what his his novel, Fahrenheit 451, meant. Apparently, it pissed him off so much that he walked out of the talk. How dare the students dictate to him, the author of the novel, what his meant with his novel. 🙂
Re: Re: Never thought i'd say this but
Originally posted by dadudemon
That word reminds me of this great satirical Italian song: Prisencolinensinainciusol. It was mocking the Italians who didn't know English and loved any English sounding song...so this artist wrote a song with words that were complete gibberish but were made to sound like English words. Funnily enough, it was a hit in Italy thus proving his point. 🙂Song is catchy, too! 😄 Listen to it with the volume really high up:
Edit - What you're doing is similar to students at UCLA told Ray Bradbury was wrong with his interpretation about what his his novel, Fahrenheit 451, meant. Apparently, it pissed him off so much that he walked out of the talk. How dare the students dictate to him, the author of the novel, what his meant with his novel.
Originally posted by riv6672
This happens here a lot.
I once spoke to Ice T about how he ragged on cops in some songs but told his listeners to call them for help in others, and how he was chagrined about it.
Posters went in to tell me how he actually felt. 😛
My "favorite" is when posters try to tell you what you meant with a post. Like, "o rly? you are telepathic and knew exactly what I meant, eh?" Many people on the internet are always on a witch hunt: constantly wearing their insecurities on their shoulders and occupying large portions of their free trying to point out faults in ideas, comments, words, or people on the internet.
Edit - I should note that Robtard was not doing that. He was just trolling and I played along because I was bored, too. 😄
Originally posted by dadudemon
My "favorite" is when posters try to tell you what you meant with a post. Like, "o rly? you are telepathic and knew exactly what I meant, eh?" Many people on the internet are always on a witch hunt: constantly wearing their insecurities on their shoulders and occupying large portions of their free trying to point out faults in ideas, comments, words, or people on the internet.Edit - I should note that Robtard was not doing that. He was just trolling and I played along because I was bored, too. 😄