'Skwerl': Fake English In A Short Film (VIDEO)

Here's an Australian short that's basically the film equivalent of writing without vowels. The couple in "Skwerl" speak a combination of mixed-up English and nonsense words, but their meaning is eminently clear (especially when the girl says to the guy, "You fucking asshole"). For more irresistible English knockoffs, check out the 70s Italian radio hit and since internet meme Prisencolinensinaincuisol.

WATCH "Skwerl":

Comments

[Willie Plasencia]

12:49 PM on 10/17/2011

I dig foreign films...don't you?

[brux]

07:01 PM on 10/15/2011

Pretty girl ... foul mouth ! ;-)

[sobaytransplant]

03:21 AM on 10/15/2011

Wow. That was 4 minutes of my life I'll never get back.

[Rachel122]

06:48 PM on 10/18/2011

Like you were going to spend it doing anything better.

[left in vermont]

03:43 PM on 10/14/2011

What a wonderful piece of acting. Quick molding.

[Tsalco]

02:01 AM on 10/14/2011

Years ago I was considering how we imitate the sounds of languages that we do not speak, especially French, Swedish, and Japanese and wondered how non-english speakers imitate us. So, as I travelled I asked people to do fake english. The results are enlightening and often hilarious.

[hopscotcher]

08:18 PM on 10/13/2011

By the way this is nothing like writing without vowels. What a stupid analogy.

[Forester]

05:47 PM on 10/13/2011

Just like Monty Python said:

What makes it worse, sometimes at the end of a sentence I'll come out with the wrong fusebox.
And the thing about saying the wrong word is
a] I don't notice it, and
b] sometimes orange water given bucket of plaster.

[hopscotcher]

02:02 PM on 10/13/2011

So great. I think about this all the time. English is such a beautiful language.

[maverick9808]

12:07 PM on 10/13/2011

LOVE IT, intelligently serious gibberish, a microcosm of american culture and life!

[brux]

07:02 PM on 10/15/2011

Really ... maybe our Presidential debates might be more productive is spoken in fake English!

[maverick9808]

09:26 AM on 10/17/2011

Aren't they already?

[fredimessina]

11:47 AM on 10/13/2011

Interesting. I always figured that we sounded ridiculous.

[mass maritimer]

11:45 AM on 10/14/2011

even when we make sense.....

[Euphoria123]

05:06 PM on 10/14/2011

I think we sound great!

[invirginia]

11:19 AM on 10/13/2011

interesting