Foreign Accent Syndrome?

[Glassman]

WTF

A New Zealand woman's accent has turned into a mix of Welsh, Scottish and north London tones in a rare case of "foreign accent syndrome".

Bronwyn Fox, 59, of Invercargill, in the southernmost region of the South Island, told the Telegraph on Tuesday that she has never been to Britain and does not have any British-born relatives.

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[marsred]

Didn't this happen to some English women who started speaking in a really awful 'Chinese' accent?

I'm crap at accents so if I catch it i'll just start speaking more loudly and more slowly, a bit patronizing maybe with exagerated hand gestures thrown in.

[OlberJ]

What's more amazing is the people who have head injuries and then start speaking other languages fluently, having never learned them!


Or, the master of this phenomena, Steve McLaren.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZnoP4sUV90

[PHmember]

Pretty sure this is what happened to Cheryl Cole/Tweedy. Apparently she's English!

Who'da thunk it.

[Justayellowbadge]

No! Eeesa a seendrom??

[Mazda Baiter]

Or the woman from Brizzle who started talking like she was from the Carribean.

[HOGEPH]

Que?

[OlberJ]

There's a lot of youfs in town who talk with a Bronx accent and i'm 99% sure they've never been.

How queer.

[Chill Winston]

Maybe not a foreign accent but if I hear one more feckless mouth breathing chav ask for a 'burg-oo-uar' in that "Oh mah dayz blad. I swear down yeh? One a deez dayz" accent that they all seem to have in Nottingham I'm going to fking murder someone. If you want a burger then ask for one, and it wouldn't hurt to say please either.

[OlberJ]

Chill Winston said:

Maybe not a foreign accent but if I hear one more feckless mouth breathing chav ask for a 'burg-oo-uar' in that "Oh mah dayz blad. I swear down yeh? One a deez dayz" accent that they all seem to have in Nottingham I'm going to fking murder someone. If you want a burger then ask for one, and it wouldn't hurt to say please either.

I guess it's true, working in McDonalds really does get to you in the end

[whitechief]

My mate emigrated to Australia five years ago and within three months his accent was like Steve Irwin's(RIP). Very strange.

[Chill Winston]

OlberJ said:

Chill Winston said:

Maybe not a foreign accent but if I hear one more feckless mouth breathing chav ask for a 'burg-oo-uar' in that "Oh mah dayz blad. I swear down yeh? One a deez dayz" accent that they all seem to have in Nottingham I'm going to fking murder someone. If you want a burger then ask for one, and it wouldn't hurt to say please either.

I guess it's true, working in McDonalds really does get to you in the end

Hey. I resent that.


It was KFC

[GilbertGrape]

whitechief said:

My mate emigrated to Australia five years ago and within three months his accent was like Steve Irwin's(RIP). Very strange.

That's fake accent syndrome, and it really bugs me. You see (hear) it a lot with actors who have moved to the US to "work", and suddenly they have a full on accent. When they remember.

[Mazda Baiter]

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[Mazda Baiter]

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[supra legend]

whitechief said:

My mate emigrated to Australia five years ago and within three months his accent was like Steve Irwin's(RIP). Very strange.

My dads mate emigrated there over 20 years ago and still has a thick Bolton accent. Oreet lad, ows t'goin?

[chevy-stu]

I love it when people pick up particular phrase or ways of saying things that are not natural their own accent..

I know a few english people that work with Aussies and Saffas and end up saying eh? at the end of every sentence.. indeed most queer

[Pigeon]

GilbertGrape said:

whitechief said:

My mate emigrated to Australia five years ago and within three months his accent was like Steve Irwin's(RIP). Very strange.

That's fake accent syndrome, and it really bugs me. You see (hear) it a lot with actors who have moved to the US to "work", and suddenly they have a full on accent. When they remember.

It's not "fake", well at least not in the case of normal people, though actors may be different. It's just a case of unconsciously picking up the speech patterns of the people you spend most of the time speaking to.

[Famous Graham]

chevy-stu said:

I love it when people pick up particular phrase or ways of saying things that are not natural their own accent..

I know a few english people that work with Aussies and Saffas and end up saying eh? at the end of every sentence.. indeed most queer

That's happened to me - I still (and always will) have an English accent, but my speech now includes words like "wee", "aye" and "pal". The latter seems to get inflected too.

Oh dear

[GilbertGrape]

Pigeon said:

GilbertGrape said:

whitechief said:

My mate emigrated to Australia five years ago and within three months his accent was like Steve Irwin's(RIP). Very strange.

That's fake accent syndrome, and it really bugs me. You see (hear) it a lot with actors who have moved to the US to "work", and suddenly they have a full on accent. When they remember.

It's not "fake", well at least not in the case of normal people, though actors may be different. It's just a case of unconsciously picking up the speech patterns of the people you spend most of the time speaking to.

In that case, when back in their native country, they should revert back to their native accent. This doesn't happen with some people. That's why I call fake.

Edited by GilbertGrape on Friday 16th July 07:13