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Old 06-19-2021, 05:55 AM
 
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I'm not sure this would pass as an Irish accent in Ireland, but there is no doubt it would be disconcerting to wake up with a completely different accent.

Apparently this is a documented condition.

https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/progr...ccent/13341190

If you had to wake up with the accent of another land, what would you choose.

For me, I'd go with cockney English.
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Old 06-19-2021, 06:03 AM
 
Location: Tricity, PL
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I heard about and it's a real thing. There are even people that suddenly spoke foreign language they never learned before.
https://brobible.com/life/article/sp...ge-after-coma/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_accent_syndrome

I would love to wake up and speak Mandarin or Farsi...
Or speak with Kiwi accent.
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Old 06-19-2021, 06:13 AM
 
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I heard about and it's a real thing. There are even people that suddenly spoke foreign language they never learned before.
https://brobible.com/life/article/sp...ge-after-coma/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_accent_syndrome

I would love to wake up and speak Mandarin or Farsi...
Or speak with Kiwi accent.
Kiwi is good. You pass for an Aussie in most of the world!!
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Old 06-19-2021, 06:23 AM
 
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What about RP English? Too posh?
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Old 06-19-2021, 07:36 AM
 
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What about RP English? Too posh?
Haha that's how I sound now!
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Old 06-19-2021, 07:57 AM
 
Location: Somewhere on the Moon.
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I heard about and it's a real thing. There are even people that suddenly spoke foreign language they never learned before.
https://brobible.com/life/article/sp...ge-after-coma/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_accent_syndrome

I would love to wake up and speak Mandarin or Farsi...
Or speak with Kiwi accent.
Love? What? Waking up speaking a language no one you know and interact with everyday speaks and/or understand?

I personally don't see the appeal some people have for languages. The way I see it, they are simply a way to communicate with others. If you can only speak a language that no one in your surroudings speak or understand, that's a major problem.
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Old 06-19-2021, 09:29 AM
 
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In terms of English accents, which is what OP meant probably: idk maybe American accent, something most English speakers understand with ease. If it's languages: Korean or Latin, Italian sounds cool too. I already speak Japanese good enough to watch movies without subs yet far from fluent, just hope I'll never have anything to do with Ukrainian, Russian or French - accent or languages doesn't matter .
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Old 06-19-2021, 10:19 AM
 
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Apparently this syndrome is common among Australian actors and actresses who come to work in the USA and start speaking like they were born in California.
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Old 06-19-2021, 04:31 PM
 
Location: San Diego CA
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After some kind of major trauma the brain is basically regrouping and reordering those areas that affect speech. In many cases the person may have had some rudimentary understanding of the foreign language or accents either by study or simply hearing the language spoken.
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Old 06-20-2021, 09:41 PM
 
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Apparently this syndrome is common among Australian actors and actresses who come to work in the USA and start speaking like they were born in California.
Yeah but they can quickly shut it down when they want to.
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