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| vilas Pentaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6960 days ago 531 posts - 722 votes  Speaks: Spanish, Italian*, English, French, Portuguese | Message 1 of 14 14 May 2011 at 10:49pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Today I have read in an Italian newspaper that few days ago, a Neapolitan girl woke up speaking with a strong Milano's accent . Then I found in internet that this is a language disease , the "Foreign accent syndrome" , that usually happen after a stroke . There are around 60 patients in the world that suffer the Foreign accent syndrome . Very rare and funny. Somebody from the States woke up speaking like a Dubliner dockworker . A British lady woke up with a chinese accent. A Newcastler lady changed her normal accent in a mixed accent, variously described as resembling a Jamaican, as well as a French Canadian, Italian, and a Slovak .
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 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6379 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 14 15 May 2011 at 4:05am | IP Logged | |||||
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I imagine you didn't mean to say that there is something funny about a person having a stroke. Maybe you meant to say it is unusual or strange?
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| Cowlegend999 Groupie CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5144 days ago 72 posts - 94 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 3 of 14 15 May 2011 at 6:14am | IP Logged | |||||
is pretty funny, not the idea of a person having a stroke. I heard that the creator of the Segway got killed by his own invention (went over a cliff I believe). I heard many people say it's a funny story because of how ironic it is. That doesn't mean they think death is funny or him dying is funny. Also, atleast where I'm from, if there's something unusual or strange it's not uncommon (and in fact I would say much more likely) that the people will use funny instead. Not necessarily meant to show any form of disrespect 8 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| vilas Pentaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6960 days ago 531 posts - 722 votes Speaks: Spanish, Italian*, English, French, Portuguese | Message 4 of 14 15 May 2011 at 5:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I am sorry . I did'n't want to disrespect anybody .
I wanted to say that his disease is unusual. It is not nice to wake up with another accent. Brings a sense of estrangement and alienation. It can be a bad wake up. Maybe researchers can study which parts of the brain are in charge of this compulsory change of language. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6011 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 5 of 14 15 May 2011 at 9:16pm | IP Logged | |||||
It wasn't the creator -- it was the millionaire who bought the company that died. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Matheus Senior Member Brazil Joined 5081 days ago 208 posts - 312 votes Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: English, French | Message 6 of 14 15 May 2011 at 9:16pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I wouldn't like to suffer a stroke, but just waking up someday with a British accent would be pretty cool.
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| jazzboy.bebop Senior Member Norway norwegianthroughnove Joined 5418 days ago 439 posts - 800 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian | Message 7 of 14 16 May 2011 at 3:58am | IP Logged | |||||
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Foreign Accent Syndrome doesn't actually cause a person to adopt the accent of a certain
area though, it's not like you'll wake up and you'll have a genuine sounding foreign accent. Your linguistic motor skills are impaired and alter the way you speak to different extents for each sufferer and to some untrained ears they might think the sufferer is now speaking in some other regional or foreign accent. FAS Wiki I remember watching a documentary about it which showed you some sufferers of the condition and how one woman had an accent that had been described separately as French, Polish, Russian, Spanish, German etc. Edited by jazzboy.bebop on 16 May 2011 at 3:59am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| kyssäkaali Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5553 days ago 203 posts - 376 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish | Message 8 of 14 16 May 2011 at 4:06am | IP Logged | |||||
oh my god i hate those segways soooo much. and yes that sentence was totally related to the thread :D the brit that woke up with the chinese accent didn't actually wake up with a chinese accent, lol. she just lost the ability to make certain sounds and slurred her speech, etc. isn't it normal after a stroke to speak with slurred speech? here she is on youtube what would be more remarkable is if someone woke up producing sentences not only with another language's phonologic stock, but with the grammar/syntax of that language as well. also i've read a good few stories of people who are a native speaker of language A studying language B, who after severe head injuries wake up fluent in language B and unable to speak language A anymore, although this isn't permanent and lasts like a day or two, if even that. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-481651/Czech-speedwa y-rider-knocked-crash-wakes-speaking-perfect-English.html 1 person has voted this message useful |
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