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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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8

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For a non-native speaker of English - this sounds like lots of songs.

Tangentially related - this is how I discovered Nightwish some 15 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg5_mlQOsUQ

Nobody could make up words like Frankie Smith (may he RIP 2019) in the middle of Double Dutch Bus https://youtu.be/fK9hK82r-AM

The sound engineer on the loveline show had Dr Drew Pinsky trying to sing this song as an evergreen.

Thank you.

I know this comment doesn't add anything of value to the discussion per se, but that's given me the biggest laugh I've had in months.

Nightwish came into my life in the 00s, and I couldn't tell you one song meaning, yet I love the sound.

This is just a perfect video, thank you for sharing.

Unfortunately, despite now knowing the words, the song will never sound right anymore :)

Great band, though.

Modern version: https://youtu.be/ybcvlxivscw

"English" starts at around 0:48, but the others are also worth a listen!

Here's another similar one, but acted prose instead of a song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt4Dfa4fOEY

This isn't nonsense in the same way, but it has a similar appeal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8yEH8TZUsk

This is what a parse error feels like.

My brain isn’t melted. This could just be some obscure Dutch dialect for all I know.

I'm sure some people don't hear it, like "the dress", but for some of us it sounds like an Uncanny Valley of English: close but not quite, just enough for our brains to trip over / struggle to comprehend b/c it is so close.

I wonder how much those exposure those creeped-out people have had to other Germanic languages.

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