Migraine Leaves English Woman with Chinese Accent

[JansenW]

Severe Migraine Leaves English Woman with Chinese Accent

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,591259,00.html

Foreign Accent Syndrome occurs everywhere, this form of it, for some reason, has never been recognized in China

Can anyone post any audio clips of people speaking with FAS?

[sloasdaylight]

Originally Posted by JansenW

Severe Migraine Leaves English Woman with Chinese Accent

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,591259,00.html

Foreign Accent Syndrome occurs everywhere, this form of it, for some reason, has never been recognized in China

Can anyone post any audio clips of people speaking with FAS?

[JansenW]

Here's a clip of an American with FAS sounding European.

From Good Morning America: takes some time to load

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=6241218

[Relic]

Originally Posted by JansenW

Here's a clip of an American with FAS sounding European.

From Good Morning America: takes some time to load

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=6241218

That's crazy! Not only does she talk with an accent but even her inflection sounds foreign. There's more going on than her just mispronouncing words. It's almost as though her brain cannot "remember" her previous method of speaking so it takes accents, words and inflections from other things she's heard and builds a whole new method. Freaky.

Well, it's either that or it simply proves that all Europeans must be brain damaged to talk like that.

[Jools4001]

Originally Posted by Relic

Well, it's either that or it simply proves that all Europeans must be brain damaged to talk like that.

Haven't seen the clip yet but FAS normally happens after a stroke or a small haemorage causes some damage to the part of the brain that controls speech and the muscles you need to use in your mouth and tongue to form words. She might want to check that it was just a severe migraine.

[DigMe]

Originally Posted by sloasdaylight

Classic flick.

bc

[L-A]

I never had a migraine so strong my accent migrated without my permission.

[Relic]

Originally Posted by Jools4001

Haven't seen the clip yet but FAS normally happens after a stroke or a small haemorage causes some damage to the part of the brain that controls speech and the muscles you need to use in your mouth and tongue to form words. She might want to check that it was just a severe migraine.

It's really interesting. I've heard of the syndrome before but I honestly never actually heard someone with it speaking.
I had always just assumed that they simply mispronounced things and because of that, it may sound sort of like a foreign accent.
But give this one a listen, check out the inflection and even word choice. A lot of it is atypical of an American. It sounds as though her brain had reconstructed a new way of speaking by "borrowing" things she's heard in the past. I'm curious to get your opinion on it? (or any other non-US, non-Canadian) What sort of accent does it sound like to you?

[Relic]

Originally Posted by L-A

I never had a migraine so strong my accent migrated without my permission.

I get terrible migraines... but my vocabulary during them usually has a f-word sandwiched in between every other word.

[MakiSupaStar]

Originally Posted by Relic

I get terrible migraines... but my vocabulary during them usually usually has a f-word sandwiched in between every other word.

Just your luck. While others pick up exotic accent inflections, you pick up turrettes

[Relic]

Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar

Just your luck. While others pick up exotic accent inflections, you pick up turrets.

No, I'm FUUUUUUUUUUUU---ine right now. Perfectly FUU FFuuuu Fine. ACK.

Know what would be cool though? If everytime I had a migraine I could talk like Ricardo Montalban.... now THAT would be the epitome of cool.

[whoatherechunk]

whoa

[HEIST]

I wonder if they mean a real chinese accent or 'what people sound like when they mock chinese' accent.

[Relic]

Originally Posted by HEIST

I wonder if they mean a real chinese accent or 'what people sound like when they mock chinese' accent.

Before I checked out the other link posted farther down in this thread, I would have thought "mock" Chinese accent, but now? I'm dumbfounded... there's far more to this than just mispronouncing things. I'm now convinced that it is a "real" accent in that, their brain is remembering it from somewhere and using it to replace their former way of speaking due to the damage on the brain.

...or something like that..who knows

[SpamBot]

Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar

Just your luck. While others pick up exotic accent inflections, you pick up turrets.

I could have sworn you meant Tourette's (syndrome).


Also, hearing FAS mean anything but Fetal Alcohol Syndrome seems weird to me.

[baalroo]

Originally Posted by SpamBot

Also, hearing FAS mean anything but Fetal Alcohol Syndrome seems weird to me.

yeah, I think I had a case of that a few weeks ago when I woke up on the bathroom floor after a long night of partying.

[MatticusMania]

Originally Posted by baalroo

yeah, I think I had a case of that a few weeks ago when I woke up on the bathroom floor after a long night of partying.

surrounded by half eaten fetuses (feti?)

[JansenW]

[edit]Here is a series on YouTube about Foreign Accent Syndrome... It makes signing almost unintelligible.

Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1rC43dvbws
Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMr17gWxU7s
Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_uy9qyCSe4

[MakiSupaStar]

Originally Posted by SpamBot

I could have sworn you meant Tourette's (syndrome).


Also, hearing FAS mean anything but Fetal Alcohol Syndrome seems weird to me.

Pfft. You say 'tomato' I say 'farkyouicehole'.

[doctorjazz]

Interesting. I knew a guy in high school who had lived in the United States all his life but always spoke with a British accent. I never had any idea why, his family didn't have an accent. Dude had Asperger's, I wonder if perhaps there might have been a bit of this going on too. I know he liked the BBC just because their news coverage is better than American media, perhaps his brain just latched on to that?