Foreign Accent Syndrome

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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

I WANT.

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

into a mixture of Jamaican, Canadian and Slovakian

i don't think that's having a 'foreign accent'. a stroke will change your voice, but statistically, not may people combine those three accents, it's not a 'foreign accent' as such, just an odd one.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

Linda Walker says she hates what has happened to her

Yeah, sure, whatever. You're on the INTAH NET! You're FAMOUS!

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

AND YOU TALK WAY COOL

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

Tis funny that a lot of peopple who attempt a geordie accent end up sounding jamaican instead. mon.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

why is she pissed off? she traded a crummy accent for a cool one (no offence to geordies, but your accent isn't exactly music to the ears).

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

One of the papers said she went 'from "way-ay" to "yeeaah, mon"'. What's more distressing: having your voice changed by a stroke, or being accused of badly impersonating a Jamaican?

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe Ian R-M had a stroke instead of puberty.

― I will commence to drop a knowledge bomb. (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

can't she just say "like" after everything like?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's kinda funny that a stroke will make you sound like me!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

she tries, but it comes out as "mon" (xpost)

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, I actually knew someone this happened to! She had a brain aneurysm while travelling in Germany, and woke up having lost most of her vocabulary and speaking in a heavy German accent (which she still had several years later). Very odd. I actually thought she was German until someone told me.

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

Still doesn't explain why my comedy Welsh accent sounds Indian.

― dr lulu (dr lulu), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

Everyone's comedy Welsh accent sounds Indian

― ¡Vamos a matar, Dadaismus! (Dada), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

So what excuse do white schoolkids in south London have?

"I will not have gossip in this jungle."
Doesn't sound remotely Indian!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 10:16 (nineteen years ago)

Dawn's comedy Welsh accent sounds exactly welsh. But she has a geordie accent to start with.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

The result is often a drawing out or clipping of the vowels that mimic the accent of a particular country, such as Spain or France, even though the sufferer has limited exposure to that accent.

Sounds like it's a speech deformation(?) that can happen to make you sound like you're talking in some other accent, rather than the brain 'picking up' some foreign accent that you heard once on holiday, and you then talking 'in character'. I totally thought it was the latter at first.

― gooblar (gooblar), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

seven years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r2yJwQVmIE

― 乒乓, Friday, 6 September 2013 11:41 (eleven years ago)

George Michael has revealed he woke up from a coma speaking in a West Country accent.

The London-born star's life was in the balance after battling pneumonia, and had to learn to walk again as his muscles wasted away during his recovery from the illness late last year.

In an interview with London's LBC radio, he revealed: 'I swear this is true. I came out of my coma talking in this West Country accent.'

When he finally opened his eyes and was asked by a doctor if he knew who he was, the singer name checked a famous line in James Cameron's romantic epic movie Titanic - uttering, 'King of the world?' in the strange burr.

He added: 'The doctors were worried that I had this condition where some people wake up speaking French or some language they learned at school. There's nothing wrong with a West Country accent, but it's a bit weird when you're from north London. My sisters, who were obviously so relieved that I'd actually woken up, were just laughing away at this stand up comedy.'

― r|t|c, Friday, 6 September 2013 11:44 (eleven years ago)

so fuckin crazy

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 6 September 2013 11:46 (eleven years ago)

georrge mike-o wakes up from comal

― kinder, Friday, 6 September 2013 11:49 (eleven years ago)

were just laughing away at this stand up comedy.

Probably more lay down comedy

― Ma mère est habile Mais ma bile est amère (Michael White), Friday, 6 September 2013 13:59 (eleven years ago)

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