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smathletic_shmlainer t1_j66xt7o wrote

I met a guy that had this about 10 years back. I have a background in languages and I couldn’t place his accent so I asked him where he was from. He said he’s a local but got into a bad car wreck that put him into a coma and he’s spoken that way ever since. He had a great sense of humor about it though. “I sound like Borat, right!?” He really did 🤦🏻‍♂️

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pineappleshnapps t1_j67ii3j wrote

Dang that sucks, I’d thought of French accents, English Accents and so many others, but hadn’t considered sounding like borat.

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JEs4 t1_j681g2a wrote

I can't accurately vocalize any foreign accents. I'd definitely sound like Borat. Very nice.

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UnknownQTY t1_j680o1m wrote

> “I sound like Borat, right!?” He really did 🤦🏻‍♂️

You mean “I sounds leek Borat, riiiiight?”

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SignalRevenue t1_j6a6b0o wrote

I know several people for whom Hebrew and English are second languages and when they speak English, they sound like Borat.

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streethasonename t1_j69cdme wrote

What do you call it when one can quickly pick up a local accent wherever they are?

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smathletic_shmlainer t1_j6a30cx wrote

Is this the set up for a punch line? 😎

If not then I’m not aware of a specific name but that’s probably under the linguistics domain if you want to Google-fu the answer. I’m certainly guilty of that and probably sounding a little patronizing

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streethasonename t1_j6allqb wrote

Nope, no funny biz here. Someone close to me can pick up the local accent no matter where she goes, she can leave with the accent.

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travelinglawyr t1_j6asz33 wrote

I do this. I call it affecting the accent or mimicking. I usually don't even notice I'm doing it until someone points it out or it REALLY diverges from my normal accent.

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Taney34 t1_j67a3ev wrote

My German uncle had a stroke and was unconscious for a bit. Woke up in the hospital and asked the nurse - in English, in which he is fluent - why he was there. She answered in German and then he started to freak out because he didn’t understand her so he had no idea where he was. They immediately called in some one to speak English to reassure him, but he never spoke German again and died a couple years later.

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rainbowkitty808 t1_j66vcis wrote

Hmmm.. Hilaria Baldwin?

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lola_raspberry t1_j66vqu6 wrote

Came here looking for this 🥒🥒🥒

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judymccindy t1_j6anl22 wrote

I barely had to scroll to find what I was looking for. 😂

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wildadragon t1_j66ton0 wrote

American here, punches myself in the head

"Oi, ya cunt."

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Dolemicus t1_j66woai wrote

Sir, we weren't recording yet so you're going to have to do that one again.

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Wild_Top1515 t1_j673iq5 wrote

my dad suddenly went southern after he had what i assume was a stroke.. super weird.. dude has never been to the south.. very distinct change.

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Varnigma t1_j68dj1m wrote

To be honest, many southerners sound like stroke victims to begin with.

Full disclosure: am southerner.

Hope your father is doing well.

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littlesymphonicdispl t1_j6915hg wrote

Southerners ain't got shit on the Appalachian mountain people. Fucking need subtitles for them.

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Varnigma t1_j693ozy wrote

My grandmother was what we called “tongue tied” (not sure the medical term is). Basically I never could understand her.

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AgentMeatbal t1_j69e52i wrote

So there is a condition called a tongue tie. Basically all of us have a little membrane running down the middle of the underside our tongue that connects it to the floor of your mouth. Some people have too much membrane and it stops their tongue from moving properly. It’s an easy fix, a little snip. But she may have literally just had this.

You can go look in the mirror and lift up your tongue and see yours. You can also lift your upper lip and see how the inside of your upper lip is connected to the gum above your two front teeth. The proper term for the one under the tongue is lingual frenulum if you want to Google it.

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Benzerka t1_j69tdb2 wrote

I'd hate to sound like I was from London, poor guy

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Pharius t1_j66t1qn wrote

Yeah but when I do it after a couple drinks I’m just an asshole.

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Business-Emu-6923 t1_j672r2f wrote

This is actually the same thing.

Your brain processes language differently when “doing a funny voice”. After trauma to the brain such as a stroke, the usual pathways for language processing can get blocked. The brain finds a work-around by sending your speech via the funny-voice neurones.

Weird, but it can keep you talking after brain injury.

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SirCris t1_j67hrzo wrote

I was just wondering if this was related. I was sitting at my neighborhood bar in Kentucky listening to a British couple have a conversation next to me. I was very drunk. Eventually I started talking to them and instead of my usual voice, everything came out British. I don't remember everything that was said, but they were convinced I was also British. Eventually I tried to give up the act but I couldn't find my normal voice. It actually freaked me out a bit because I was legit not trying to do the accent anymore but everything I said just kept coming out that way. They didn't think I was an asshole and had a good laugh about it.

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JakinovVonhoes t1_j68hfti wrote

This happened to me when I was a teenager, smoking some green and having beers. Started speaking with an Australian accent and it would not go away until sleeping it off.

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DefiantStomp t1_j66xn6w wrote

I pick up accents when I travel. I was born in Texas but lived in Minnesota and went back to Texas for the summer months and traveled through Oklahoma and Kansas. I had such a weird accent when I moved to Arizona where many people have Mexican Spanish as their first language. Then I'll watch movies and pick up on accents from characters. I have been convinced for a long time that I may not be right in the head. Or that the me I'm perceiving now may not be the same me tomorrow.

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animagus_kitty t1_j675cv9 wrote

I once knew a fellow who, in his youth, moved from his native country of Ireland to New Orleans, where he joined the military and (separately) went to New York, and by the time he got out of New York, they'd made him take speech classes because no one could understand his Irish-New Orleans-New Yorker accent anymore.

He worked at a Gamestop in Indiana in the late 00's with no accent at all, but lots of great stories to tell.

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BoomChaka67 t1_j68939x wrote

NO and NY accents share some similarities- notably some non-rhotic pronunciations.

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mercedes_ t1_j67366h wrote

I’m pretty sure this is a tell for someone with high empathy, actually.

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transnavigation t1_j67ytlw wrote

Yes, it's actually a sign of pro-social behavior (or the need to people-please, or put others at ease, especially strangers you have just met or people you want to impress.)

Which can backfire when you do it automatically and people think you're having a laugh.

I genuinely cannot help it, if I try to concentrate on not mimicking someone's accent, I can't focus on what they're saying and it jumbles up my words, too.

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Original_Sail t1_j68gdg1 wrote

I have this issue. I had to fight it really hard when i worked tech support on the phone because customers don't want to think you're mocking them and are quick to assume it

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claraalberta t1_j67qx33 wrote

This. I used to work in customer service, and I would copy the accent of whoever I'm speaking to. Heck, I copy the accent of anyone I'm speaking to in real time. It's driven me insane because I feel like I have no accent to call "my own".

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BoomChaka67 t1_j688zd1 wrote

I do this as well. Spent 18 months in London and came home to the US with an accent that took at least a month to go away.

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Astronius-Maximus t1_j67jhd7 wrote

Recently I've watched a lot of documentaries and videos with people speaking british english, and I now find myself speaking with an accent that is a mix of my usual voice and a british accent (I'm from Texas). Sometimes when I think out loud I just use a british voice. I have to prevent myself form embarrassing myself in front of family.

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ARobertNotABob t1_j69tphk wrote

TBF, a fellow Brit imitating a Texican can be pretty embarrassing ... heavy on the "y'all", horses, hats and either "steers and queers" or "bushwackers".

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farmerarmor t1_j66xd50 wrote

I am Swedish plumber!

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rinvevo t1_j68sap0 wrote

Do a Philadelphia accent if you insist on doing an accent!

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kinbeat t1_j67htd2 wrote

I was told my great aunt had this after a stroke. She was italian, and after she woke up, spoke with a heavy german/polish accent for a few months. Granted, we live in northern Italy, so she probably HAD met someone that talked like that at some point.

Might have just been slurred speech, but the way it was described to me matches this.

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WikiHowWikiHow t1_j67rlgs wrote

after a few months was she back to her regular speaking voice?

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kinbeat t1_j67xjel wrote

Yes, iirc she did speech therapy and that helped her return almost to normal

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cyklone117 t1_j67no98 wrote

I learned it from comedian Tom Segura.

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Thedrunner2 t1_j66vyup wrote

“Como esta usted, matey.”

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Ailyssa t1_j68908o wrote

You know I can't speak for this syndrome, but a colleague of my parents automatically sort of 'mimics' the accent of his clients (he's a businessman working in sales) so when he's speaking with Australian clients he sort of does this...super weird Australian accent (for example, we're not Australian) :D is that conscious or on purpose

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drekwithoutpolitics t1_j68jj32 wrote

It might be subconscious. People frequently mirror body language and speech patterns of people they like (or maybe want to be liked by).

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Ailyssa t1_j68mvmk wrote

That's interesting and also a little bit funny :) to everyone else the aussie accent sounds quite fake :D hehe! I'll look into mirroring

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drekwithoutpolitics t1_j68n07g wrote

He’s doing the best he can, mate! Lol

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Ailyssa t1_j68pq09 wrote

Oh I know, not trying to make fun of him :D it's just interesting :D an aussie accent is a special thing on its own! Beautiful in its own right.

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Inevitable-Teacher0 t1_j6bn6uc wrote

I don’t remember the medical term, but I once met someone who had a bizarre accent- a little like he was switching back and forth between British/American Midwest accent. He explained he had some sort of hearing/processing issue, and he actually has to vary his accent a little in order to consistently hear what he is saying.

My aunt does something similar in regards to mimicking accents- it’s totally subconscious, and it’s led to a few awkward situations (people thinking she’s making fun of their accent). She can usually control it if she’s concentrates, though.

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Melonqualia t1_j67c2sx wrote

My niece got hit by a car a few years again and it changed the ways she talked in a weird way. Not exactly an accent, but she sounds like she is permanently doing sort of a character voice.

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aZamaryk t1_j68fxcs wrote

Haha, went to local college in georgia usa and did some studies with this lady in the math lab. After some time I asker her if she was British and she explained to me that she was american in a car accident following a short coma. She said when she woke up she was speaking like this, but she never noticed it until all her family kept asking her why she was speaking with a British accent. She said it felt natural and she couldn't tell the difference.

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Difficult_Lunch_4406 t1_j68io06 wrote

I watched a report on TV just before Christmas & in a small city outside Houston a Hispanic lady woke up speaking with a British accent after jaw surgery. She had a slight Spanish accent before the accident & now speaks perfectly British. It is weird but that’s not what this faker is doing, she’s just flat out lying!

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tvieno t1_j66w9ky wrote

I don't think it is a foreign accent they are developing but they are speaking differently that the way they used to, it just so happens to sound like a foreign accent.

For example if I started pronouncing my R's differently, you could say I would sound like i am British or Bostonian, but no, i am just pronouncing my R's differently.

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Business-Emu-6923 t1_j67366n wrote

No it is genuinely a foreign accent, like if you were doing a funny voice as a kind of racist impersonation or something.

Don’t laugh - it can be genuinely traumatic for people with this who can only talk in a fake voice.

The brain processes language differently if you are doing a funny voice as an impersonation. Sometimes brain injury, like aphasia after a stroke, can stop the usual speech pathways from functioning. The brain finds a work-around by sending your speech via the “funny foreign voice” processing centres. Weird, rare, but it happens.

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iluomo t1_j6729o8 wrote

Yeah, a lot of foreign accents exist because the people that learned foreign languages never formed the ability to produce certain vocal sounds because they are not relevant to their native tongue. Therefore, if you happen to lose the ability to produce a particular sound that is relevant to your own language, you'll sound foreign.

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Flat-Hippo6122 t1_j67sjyk wrote

Indeed. Mostly likely the signals to the mouth muscles have been damaged, reducing the range of movement in certain areas. People could lose the ability to form the θ (th) sound in "think" and instead pronounce it like "sink". This would add an almost German tint to their accent.

It's not like one day they are speaking with a British English accent and the next they suddenly have a legit German accent.

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Bucksandreds t1_j683oxc wrote

From the info that’s available, that’s not correct.

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Flat-Hippo6122 t1_j68rkbb wrote

Please elaborate.
Where do I contradict the "info" available?

I didn't have time to read the link posted, but have heard of the syndrome before.

Having finally read the link posted, it falls in line with the example I gave. It also states that people's accents randomly changed after experiencing some form of trauma to the brain (including the area responsible for speech) or nervous system (which the brain uses to transmit and receive data to and from the body).

Surely these imply that the syndrome is something affecting signals to the mouth, causing restrictions in movement and therefore sound production.

Their accent wouldn't be a true German accent either. It would just have hints of a German accent because not all the vocal sounds have changed.

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Bucksandreds t1_j68ws2o wrote

I guess we’re having a misunderstanding of what each other is saying. I was implying that it wasn’t so simple as one sound being different but a complete or near complete change in pronunciations across a spectrum of sounds. Changing the way one pronounces a single sound, would not be sufficient to make a listener believe that they’re hearing a foreign accent.

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Flat-Hippo6122 t1_j6992j6 wrote

Ah right.

I was just using a single sound as an example because I was feeling too lazy to get a collection of phonetic characters, a fault on my part.

Seeing as a lot of sounds use the same muscle groups, it stands to reason that multiple sounds will be affected from signal damage to the brain or nervous system rather than just one. It still wouldn't create a genuine German accent though, only hints of one. (I'm using German as an example purely because I recently watched a video on how to talk like Einstein)

I agree that a single sound change wouldn't sound foreign, but would sound unique, i.e., Sean Connery's accent.

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chrisjinna t1_j6709up wrote

Yeah anything to explain a glitch in the matrix. Mmmhmm..

To anyone afflicted with with this condition, I apologize for the joke.

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Longjumping_Yak5171 t1_j672gfl wrote

I wonder if when the brain fails to find the "primary" path it just defaults to a known working backup.

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Deere-John t1_j68huax wrote

Redditors seem to "discover" this about once a month.

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SirAssBlood t1_j68u266 wrote

Don't let the kids on tik tok find out about this or that number will sky rocket

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Romeos_Crying t1_j67cell wrote

Aw bloody hell, went and hite me nocker again.

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Oma2Fae t1_j67e3m1 wrote

I don't know what else it is but I can tell you it's definitely annoying. I joke about it because everyone thinks I'm just faking but it's just not fun.

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sweet-n-sombre t1_j67gts2 wrote

Can you describe the not fun parts

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Oma2Fae t1_j68qzpf wrote

When you try to talk seriously to someone and they act like you're playing because you don't sound like you used to. I was born and raised in the deep South (with everything that implies of Southern ladies) so I can't even be impolite with telling people to knock it off because I'm serious. Even worse than that, though, is the fact that I lost the ability to assimilate accents according to the people I talk to. I used to be able to talk to someone for 30 minutes or so and perfect their accent which was very helpful in making anyone feel more comfortable and relaxed because I sounded like them. Now I can't do that anymore.

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Silent-is-Golden t1_j67eivq wrote

Be more specific is it a good natural sounding accent or a horrible brain fog accent ?

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hornycrispin t1_j67me1f wrote

In America, is there a regional accent that's generally considered to make the speaker sound like a thick cunt? There's a few of those here in the UK....

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Bucksandreds t1_j683sib wrote

A strong Southern accent is associated with lack of intelligence in many parts of the US

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hornycrispin t1_j684ttg wrote

Thought that might be the case. In England it's the northern accents that often Thought of that way

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According-Classic658 t1_j687qc1 wrote

Is this what happened to Andy Ngo? He must have gotten better since he doesn't have a British accent anymore.

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GoatTheNewb t1_j68q9r4 wrote

I tell people this when I do a bad impression.

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ActuallyCausal t1_j691hy1 wrote

I know a dude with it. Got a massive concussion and woke up sounding like a Swede.

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Unlikely-Ad6788 t1_j69cgpl wrote

I speak fluent Spanish when I'm drunk but it was my first language that I forgotten.

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West_Ad_1685 t1_j69e7gq wrote

There's actually an Irish short movie about this. It's called Fluent Dysphasia, which is also another name for Foreign Accent Syndrome

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Singaya t1_j69io6g wrote

Once I worked with this guy and couldn't place his accent, kind of Irish or Eastern Canadian but not exactly either. I asked where he was from and he said "Oh I've always lived here."

"I don't understand, what's the accent?"

"Well I had a concussion and it affected me speech." Awkward.

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alzee76 t1_j66tpqt wrote

What's the over/under that genz are already faking this one on tiktok?

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DankFeces t1_j66tzt0 wrote

Middle Eastern would get me in a world of trouble.

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Business-Emu-6923 t1_j673fm2 wrote

My sister worked once with an old white lady who developed this and could (in her words) “only talk like a paki”.

It was genuinely traumatic for her that the only way she could speak was by doing a racist impersonation.

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extremisveritas t1_j677tga wrote

I know a relative of my mine who spent 2 months in United States, came back and started speaking with an accent. Now it makes sense, he must’ve had head trauma incident while he was there! This happens a lot from what I’ve seen.

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TheLastTurdOutOfYou t1_j6792gy wrote

Knew a student with a speech impediment that made his Rs like Received Pronunciation. He refused speech therapy, plans to move to England.

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plushpup2068 t1_j67e1kq wrote

My dad got that after his stroke. We are in the US, and he had a really solid Irish brogue after his stroke.

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ferrariguy1970 t1_j67wjvw wrote

Is this what happened to Hillary Baldwin?

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AnthonyTyrael t1_j67zp4m wrote

I have a colleague doing this. She said she just does it for fun but now I'm suspicious.

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Imaginary-Middle-524 t1_j681w45 wrote

Imagine if some old lady in bumfuck Delaware just started calling everyone cunts, in an Aussie accent, after having a stroke.

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Do_Better_Today t1_j685o94 wrote

Are they really speaking with an accent? Or is their speech just changed due to brain injury, and we associate that change with an accent that sounds similar?

It’s hard to believe someone could just sporadically start speaking in an accent from a place they never visited before.

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anonymoussarcasm t1_j699ry3 wrote

It has more to do with the phonetic positioning of the tongue when pronouncing vowels and consonants. Head trauma can effect the cranial nerves which control the mouth, throat and tongue. The different between accents in the same language is principally due to the positioning and manipulation of these structures. So it isn't that they develop an authentic foreign accent, more that they misalign their speech producing anatomy and the misalignment produces an effect which is heard as foreign to the listener.

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Goseki1 t1_j686aum wrote

I have this but only after i talk to someone with an accent for a long time, i will copy their inflections. I think I'm just an idiot though.

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Landlubber77 t1_j687nae wrote

Shounding like Sean Connery all of a shudden sheemsh like a shmall prishe to pay for a shtroke.

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noderoom t1_j688s77 wrote

sounds like someone just watched the Tom Segura special

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InappropriateTA t1_j688z5a wrote

Is it an actual foreign accent? Or that person’s idea of a foreign accent?

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FabriceDu56 t1_j689a7l wrote

What d'you mean, everyone I know speaks english with a french accent /s

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fredsam25 t1_j689clh wrote

This must be what Hilaria Baldwin has.

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thisplacemakesmeangr t1_j68i692 wrote

And a second study found 92 of them were trolls and the other 6 were paid to lie by Hilaria Baldwin. I mean not yet maybe but someday.

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AgrenHirogaard t1_j68kixm wrote

What about drinking? My wife starts talking with a Boston accent when she gets drunk.

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igcipd t1_j68l8yb wrote

Buddy of mine just got engaged to his longtime GF. They’re from the Carolinas. Both families are from there too. She started speaking with a British accent when she was a small child and it continues to this day, some 20+ years later. The brain is very weird.

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HoustonVapour t1_j68nmoa wrote

I've gotten that when very drunk. Luckily temporary

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diplodocus91 t1_j68o22f wrote

Its not rare in South Bombay. /s

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LimpingOne t1_j68q310 wrote

There is/was a woman on real housewives of Beverly Hills who has it.

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ParkieDude t1_j68sbmj wrote

Mine was temporary. Walked into a low-hanging beam, and knocked myself out. Came to, and every time I tried to say something it was gibberish—my name, address, city. The same sound was vocalized, but I knew it wasn't right.

Cleared up after eight hours. Scary.

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walkstofar t1_j68twzs wrote

I bet you have the OMG Facts calendar, as that is the fact of the day for todays date.

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Saesama t1_j68u5pi wrote

A local firefighter who does first aid training has this. Spent his whole life in WA and CO, has a strongly Nordic accent after his stroke. Fantastic guy, brings it up first thing in training so the day doesn't get derailed.

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LilLebowskiAchiever t1_j699w9s wrote

I’m just imagining some isolated Viking ages ago who spoke old Germanic, had a stroke, started speaking post-stroke strangely, and everyone around him over time picked up on his new accent. Hence, a new language was born.

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Saesama t1_j69d6v0 wrote

I am now imagining a viking with a stroke that ended up with an accent none of his people understood, but we today would recognize as being from Boston.

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LilLebowskiAchiever t1_j6a9xod wrote

Boston accent is based on the original counties in Ireland where the potato famine was worst and the most people fled. They happened to drop their R’s…..and 120 years JFK became president, speaking with the evolution of that accent.

But now when I listen to the Swedish Chef on the Muppets, I have to wonder if it all started with a Viking who survived a stroke….

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ThePhiff t1_j68vekg wrote

I have a friend who was born with a British accent. In Kentucky. Mom, Dad, and all 10 brothers and sisters have that southern twang. But something happened to her, and she has a geographical improbable accent.

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Ashmeads_Kernel t1_j68xz4e wrote

I had a friend who had an Australian accent 5 years after hanging out with a couple of Australian people for a while (and doing a bunch of drugs). They had never been to Australia and had not talked with anyone with the accent in the last 5 years. It was wild.

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asterierrantry t1_j690wle wrote

my aunt has this! she has had a ton of articles written about her because of it. she describes feeling an "explosion" in her brain and she switches accents regularly now.

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AllBadAnswers t1_j69kln2 wrote

I'd have to go back and find the source but I remember reading somewhere that a a lot of these cases can easily be explained away because the person has less motor function control when speaking. It sounds like a foriegn language if that is what you are listening for, but in reality they are just slurring their words or incapable of pronouncing certain sounds that they used to be able to hit.

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Big-Development-3036 t1_j69w2hg wrote

I knew someone like this. After a brain injury he spoke with a British accent

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gratefulyme t1_j6a04uv wrote

Almost as rare as a double pipe classic!

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raddrobb67 t1_j6a0iiw wrote

Must have been what happened to Madonna.

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SignalRevenue t1_j6a5pws wrote

Watched a documentary about a person whom after a clinical death found out that he can speak|understand 106 languages.

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Night-Errant t1_j6a9qqu wrote

Except it's not a foreign accent, it's a speech impediment which we interpret as being similar to how an accent sounds.

Difficulties with certain sounds etc.

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big_huge_big t1_j6au3te wrote

My middle school spanish teacher had this after a car accidient. She would have long time periods of only being able to speak in spanish, but could SING in English. Was super bizarre and we thought she was just a nutjob.

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kombatunit t1_j6b017i wrote

In college, I woke up really hungover and I talked like a movie pirate all day. Next day, back to normal.

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MurkingDolphins t1_j6b3no8 wrote

I fell into a random accent after breaking out of a deep depression. I don’t remember so good anymore either but that’s the most noticeable change in me from that period. I’ve been told it sounds southern but I live in muchigan. I have family in the south and I visit every year and it sounds different than theirs so it’s not quite southern. Brains are weird yo

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hawkwings t1_j6b54et wrote

In some cases, their rhythm is thrown off, so it sounds like a foreign accent, but it really isn't. I wonder if this affects singing and dancing.

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conradbirdiebird t1_j6b7xwy wrote

Ello theh everyone 'ere at me work! Please excuse me accent! Popped into da ol "Near and Far" as we say! Stinkin o' Scotch mist, i found meself in a bit o' an agumen wiff dis bloke! Duke supportuh ( I fink u know da type). One fing lead to de oveh, and dis lump o' school and me ad a bit o a brawl! Bopped me 'ead ee did! Woke up in the bloody ER! Doctor tell me not to worry! No twouble! (Besides da wife tha is!) Says me speakin sounds a bit off! Says ive got me an incwedibly ware syndrome in me lump-o'-lead, an sets me yet-to-be!! Can u beweive dat? Now, dis is no weep-an-wail! Feel just fyne meself! Still a North Carolyne-ean in me eart! i do i am! Wew, bob's ur uncle ill be off now me thinks! Ill be talkin like dis now!Cheerio!

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parlimentery t1_j6bh58e wrote

Imagine bumping your head and all of a sudden you start talking like Wario.

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EquivalentDig421 t1_j6c65rg wrote

Any mommies here? “In nearly free year now”

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Sentsuizan t1_j6gfpts wrote

I wish my head trauma gave me a sexy British accent instead it's just a headache

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CopprRegendt t1_j6araf7 wrote

It's not literally a foreign accent. It's a kind of aphasia that causes a speech impediment that sounds like a foreign accent. I saw clips of people with it in psych class. To me, it sounded like a British person who spent their adulthood in an -istan country.

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jsparker43 t1_j6auhmn wrote

I am actually guilty of this. My dad as well. We are sponges of life and just take on what's happening. My gf is Lakota and my dad has participated in MANY Sundances and sweat ceremonies to the point he has been an honorary Lakota. We both start drawing out our sentences when around natives. My gf also sounds midwest English, until she is around other natives.

I had some Australian friends online and they called me out because I got drunk and started mimicking their accent..

Edit: why is that bad? We adapt to the situation we are apart of to fit in and not be different. I feel like it's to conform to be apart of a culture, like someone trying out a language to fit in...jeesh

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PodcastsByOwen t1_j677nv5 wrote

I've said it once, I'll say it again. British people are clubbed in the head at birth

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wys15wyg t1_j67bimm wrote

It's not real, it is an impediment to the movement of their tongue which affects their speech. If you want proof, just check with reality.

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