How English sounds to non-English speakers

[Jurv]

i don't get it what are they saying

[AgnesIO]

i don't get it what are they saying

kind of the point

[Jurv]

kind of the point

cool it's pretty boring then

[geo]

that was weird to listen to. i'm not sure how they knew that's what it'd be like but it was pretty cool i guess

[AgnesIO]

cool it's pretty boring then

Well what exactly were you expecting lol

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[Jurv]

Well what exactly were you expecting lol

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dunno i was expecting it to be slightly funny and more about our accent lol

[Ardemax]

I don't know if this is what Marketing meant, but what I thought he meant was, how did they decide to go about the video? How do they know that's what English sounds like to a non-English speaker? Clearly they've kept some words in there, but others they've just replaced with nonsense words to replicate the confusion of not knowing what's going on...

Did they just say 'Oh we'll replace these words, and them, but keep those' or is there actually some science behind it?

Exactly what I meant

I meant, could this not work with any other language if they stuck in (for example) "toparse con", "cepillo", "la boca" (ie. random words from a different language, in this case, Spanish).

Have they, for example, taken English sounds etc to do it?

... apologies.

I'm pretty sure they have just added English-sounding words together to make a sentence of varying lengths to give a realistic feel. Someone referred to the Sims earlier and it's the same concept, no science (not that I'm aware of), just similar sounding words which flow like an actual language.

[wixard]

HOW DO YOU GUYS NOT UNDERSTAND? it is the flow and way which we speak the words, because they just took similar words in the english language but turned it into nonsense, but nonsense that has adapted the way in which the english language is spoken

just like how you can tell when someone is speaking french, or german. you can tell the different languages even if you don't know a word of them, usually by how they're spoken

[myles]

she has bong eye

[Eoin247]

that was weird to listen to. i'm not sure how they knew that's what it'd be like but it was pretty cool i guess

Pretty easy I'd imagine. Just get a few non English speakers to listen to real English and this made up English and ask them if they thought they were similar.