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elvisaintdead [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 2:11:37 PM  
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COVID19
2023-02-08 3:36:13 PM  
good choice for the tag
 
bostonguy [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 3:37:24 PM  
They soon determined that he had a classic manifestation of foreign accent syndrome, or FAS.

I'd actually because curious to hear: Do people with that syndrome sound like native speakers to other native speakers? Or do they sound like how they like the accent sounds -- like a bad actor, or something?

And a CSB: A friend in college did a study abroad in Dublin for a semester. When she got back, she had an Irish accent for MONTHS. She got a lot of hell for that.
 
Rapmaster2000
2023-02-08 3:37:42 PM  
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fiddlehead
2023-02-08 3:38:40 PM  
The article actually has before and after mp3s of the patient, I love it.
 
kindms
2023-02-08 3:39:08 PM  
may the road rise to meet him and hopefully he got his full 1/2 hour head start
 
guestguy
2023-02-08 3:39:58 PM  
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Elzar
2023-02-08 3:45:00 PM  

bostonguy: They soon determined that he had a classic manifestation of foreign accent syndrome, or FAS.

I'd actually because curious to hear: Do people with that syndrome sound like native speakers to other native speakers? Or do they sound like how they like the accent sounds -- like a bad actor, or something?

And a CSB: A friend in college did a study abroad in Dublin for a semester. When she got back, she had an Irish accent for MONTHS. She got a lot of hell for that.


I lived in Dublin for several years - calling BS on this because Dubliners don't really have strong accents, in no way could you develop a strong accent in a couple months unless you were maybe trying to learn from a voice acting perspective.

Also the Irish accent most Americans tend to associate with Ireland would be a Northern Irish accent (ie Belfast, etc.),
 
cew-smoke
2023-02-08 3:47:04 PM  
Weeners in that article is solid gold. And really dumb. Well, both at the same time really.
 
Lurk Who's Talking
2023-02-08 3:47:42 PM  
I had a minor stroke that made me not realize I was speaking German (a language I grew up with). I thought I was speaking English, and I could understand English, but for several hours, I could only speak in German. I didn't even know I knew the word for "stroke" in German! It started fading out after about 6-8 hours and by the next day I was speaking English again. I didn't have a German accent because, honestly, I never had one. I am a polyglot but no matter what language I speak, I sound like a Chicagoan. (The French can't stand it, which is funny to watch.) Russians tend to cock their heads like puzzled dogs.
 
Habeas Porpoise [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 3:49:09 PM  

cew-smoke: Weeners in that article is solid gold. And really dumb. Well, both at the same time really.


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rnatalie [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 3:52:52 PM  

elvisaintdead: [funnytheworld.com image 724x547]


Don't touch my eyes!
 
bughunter [BareFark]
2023-02-08 3:53:30 PM  
it's usually thought to be caused by a stroke or traumatic brain injury

So does this mean the Irish are brain damaged?
 
bostonguy [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 3:53:42 PM  

Elzar: bostonguy: And a CSB: A friend in college did a study abroad in Dublin for a semester. When she got back, she had an Irish accent for MONTHS. She got a lot of hell for that.

I lived in Dublin for several years - calling BS on this because Dubliners don't really have strong accents, in no way could you develop a strong accent in a couple months unless you were maybe trying to learn from a voice acting perspective.


I don't remember if it was specifically Dublin, actually -- but it was Ireland so I just assume it was Dublin. But yes, she had an accent for months. This was 20 years ago.

Hell, I did my study abroad in London and called the bathroom "the toilet" for a while when I got back.
 
rnatalie [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 3:55:17 PM  
Did he start drinking heavily?
 
Bennie Crabtree
2023-02-08 3:55:33 PM  

Elzar: I lived in Dublin for several years - calling BS on this because Dubliners don't really have strong accents,


Jeeeeeeezusss where the fark are you from? What is YOUR accent like, if Dublin is hardly anything?
 
natazha [BareFark]
2023-02-08 3:56:08 PM  

bostonguy: They soon determined that he had a classic manifestation of foreign accent syndrome, or FAS.

I'd actually because curious to hear: Do people with that syndrome sound like native speakers to other native speakers? Or do they sound like how they like the accent sounds -- like a bad actor, or something?

And a CSB: A friend in college did a study abroad in Dublin for a semester. When she got back, she had an Irish accent for MONTHS. She got a lot of hell for that.


Had a high school friend who went to college in the South and every break he'd have a drawl. It faded in a couple days.
 
geekbikerskum
2023-02-08 3:58:16 PM  
After 20+ years of living near Boston, my g/f says I'm starting to drop my "r"s. Whether or not this is due to brain damage, I couldn't tell you.
 
kindms
2023-02-08 3:58:49 PM  

Bennie Crabtree: Elzar: I lived in Dublin for several years - calling BS on this because Dubliners don't really have strong accents,

Jeeeeeeezusss where the fark are you from? What is YOUR accent like, if Dublin is hardly anything?


Cranston, RI probably
 
BolshyGreatYarblocks
2023-02-08 4:00:06 PM  
T'ouble wid his painis, then?
 
bostonguy [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 4:00:16 PM  

geekbikerskum: After 20+ years of living near Boston, my g/f says I'm starting to drop my "r"s. Whether or not this is due to brain damage, I couldn't tell you.


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bedonkadonk [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 4:00:49 PM  

Bennie Crabtree: Elzar: I lived in Dublin for several years - calling BS on this because Dubliners don't really have strong accents,

Jeeeeeeezusss where the fark are you from? What is YOUR accent like, if Dublin is hardly anything?


Bio says they be from God's Country. I'm guessing Alabama.
 
cleek
2023-02-08 4:03:21 PM  
actual Dubliners:

Fontaines D.C. - Big (Official Music Video)
Youtube aiLk6G5N-3Y
 
patrick767
2023-02-08 4:12:04 PM  

geekbikerskum: After 20+ years of living near Boston, my g/f says I'm starting to drop my "r"s. Whether or not this is due to brain damage, I couldn't tell you.


Now you have to add the "r"s you dropped onto words where they don't go, thus maintaining the proper balance of "r"s. Example: It's not "idea". It's "idear".
 
chitownmike
2023-02-08 4:22:43 PM  

bughunter: it's usually thought to be caused by a stroke or traumatic brain injury

So does this mean the Irish are brain damaged?


You would be too, if drank and fought like that
 
ansius
2023-02-08 4:24:08 PM  

bostonguy: They soon determined that he had a classic manifestation of foreign accent syndrome, or FAS.

I'd actually because curious to hear: Do people with that syndrome sound like native speakers to other native speakers? Or do they sound like how they like the accent sounds -- like a bad actor, or something?

And a CSB: A friend in college did a study abroad in Dublin for a semester. When she got back, she had an Irish accent for MONTHS. She got a lot of hell for that.


Usually it happens if the accent is defined by a single specific sound - such as a rhotic R. The person's neurological changes makes them produce this sound when they speak but otherwise their accent is unchanged. However listeners hear it as the new accent because of the inclusion of this one sound.

I've heard recordings of people with FAS where they talk with the accent but then when they doctor the recording to remove that one sound they sound like their normal accent.

I'm from Australia and we generally drop our Rs (similar to Boston). When I moved to the US I had to start including them so people could understand me. Aussies normally ask for a "bee-ah" at a bar but I had to start saying "bee-Er" when I was in loud American bars so the bartenders could understand me.

When I came back to Oz, people thought I sounded American because of this.
 
chitownmike
2023-02-08 4:28:32 PM  

natazha: bostonguy: They soon determined that he had a classic manifestation of foreign accent syndrome, or FAS.

I'd actually because curious to hear: Do people with that syndrome sound like native speakers to other native speakers? Or do they sound like how they like the accent sounds -- like a bad actor, or something?

And a CSB: A friend in college did a study abroad in Dublin for a semester. When she got back, she had an Irish accent for MONTHS. She got a lot of hell for that.

Had a high school friend who went to college in the South and every break he'd have a drawl. It faded in a couple days.


I know a guy who had a similar experience, he started farking his cousin...
 
Elzar
2023-02-08 4:44:16 PM  

bedonkadonk: Bennie Crabtree: Elzar: I lived in Dublin for several years - calling BS on this because Dubliners don't really have strong accents,

Jeeeeeeezusss where the fark are you from? What is YOUR accent like, if Dublin is hardly anything?

Bio says they be from God's Country. I'm guessing Alabama.


Alberta (Alabama of the north)
 
mrmopar5287 [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 5:00:57 PM  

bostonguy: They soon determined that he had a classic manifestation of foreign accent syndrome, or FAS.

I'd actually because curious to hear: Do people with that syndrome sound like native speakers to other native speakers? Or do they sound like how they like the accent sounds -- like a bad actor, or something?

And a CSB: A friend in college did a study abroad in Dublin for a semester. When she got back, she had an Irish accent for MONTHS. She got a lot of hell for that.


Weirdly local to me, a woman from Bloomington IL was featured on a show some time ago. She had a dental procedure with sedation and woke up with a Scottish-sounding accent. Diagnosis was maybe a small stroke during the procedure.

It was not an authentic Scottish accent, but she passed for someone who had maybe adopted a slight accent from growing up there before moving to the USA.

Her case was legit. She went to the dentist with a standard Midwestern accent and woke up with a Scottish sound to her voice.
 
mrmopar5287 [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 5:02:35 PM  

bostonguy: They soon determined that he had a classic manifestation of foreign accent syndrome, or FAS.

I'd actually because curious to hear: Do people with that syndrome sound like native speakers to other native speakers? Or do they sound like how they like the accent sounds -- like a bad actor, or something?

And a CSB: A friend in college did a study abroad in Dublin for a semester. When she got back, she had an Irish accent for MONTHS. She got a lot of hell for that.


Was her name Hillary Baldwin?
 
Unobtanium [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 5:25:50 PM  
My prostate cancer, as far as I know, has not made me develop any new accent. No one has said anything if it has.

I know there is some debate about yearly PSA, but so far, it has saved my life. Elevated PSA in 2019, surgery that year, and a new thing in 2022: PSMA - Prostate Specific Marker Antigen - enhanced PET scan found a residual cancer in the former prostate location, followed by seven weeks of daily radiation.

I'll know in March (via PSA) if the radiation has worked. 6 month PSAs for the foreseeable future. Guys (and family and friends of guys): Keep.that PSMA in mind and ask about it if other factors are present.
 
lizaardvark
2023-02-08 5:58:21 PM  

patrick767: geekbikerskum: After 20+ years of living near Boston, my g/f says I'm starting to drop my "r"s. Whether or not this is due to brain damage, I couldn't tell you.

Now you have to add the "r"s you dropped onto words where they don't go, thus maintaining the proper balance of "r"s. Example: It's not "idea". It's "idear".


The funniest case of this I've run into was an English guy with his girlfriend "Angelicker".
 
Craw Fu
2023-02-08 7:02:23 PM  

fiddlehead: The article actually has before and after mp3s of the patient, I love it.


I'm not seeing the mp3s or links to them, am I going blind?
 
dyhchong
2023-02-08 7:13:00 PM  

rnatalie: Did he start drinking heavily?


This, I was expecting the article to be about him being on his way out and deciding to get completely obliterated to die of alcohol poisoning instead.
 
HighlanderRPI
2023-02-08 7:16:25 PM  
With prostate cancer, it's probably more cockney than Irish
 
dyhchong
2023-02-08 7:18:11 PM  

HighlanderRPI: With prostate cancer, it's probably more cockney than Irish


I would have thought a huge object up your arse would have you speaking like a British royal.
 
saywhat
2023-02-08 7:46:57 PM  
What a coincidence - every time I get a digital rectal exam to check my prostate, I blurt out "Top of the morning to ya" in a thick Irish accent.

I'm not sure why ...
 
Smirky the Wonder Chimp [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 7:48:36 PM  

kindms: may the road rise to meet him and hopefully he got his full 1/2 hour head start


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/Hopefully not too obscure
//Happy trails, partner.
 
Alwysadydrmr [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 8:15:25 PM  
Waking up with a southern accent
Youtube _YS_emfPBcE
 
migueldelascervezas
2023-02-08 8:16:22 PM  

saywhat: What a coincidence - every time I get a digital rectal exam to check my prostate, I blurt out "Top of the morning to ya" in a thick Irish accent.

I'm not sure why ...


My doc's always trying to steal me lucky charms. Once a year at least...
 
yakmans_dad
2023-02-08 10:28:33 PM  

Elzar: bostonguy: They soon determined that he had a classic manifestation of foreign accent syndrome, or FAS.

I'd actually because curious to hear: Do people with that syndrome sound like native speakers to other native speakers? Or do they sound like how they like the accent sounds -- like a bad actor, or something?

And a CSB: A friend in college did a study abroad in Dublin for a semester. When she got back, she had an Irish accent for MONTHS. She got a lot of hell for that.

I lived in Dublin for several years - calling BS on this because Dubliners don't really have strong accents, in no way could you develop a strong accent in a couple months unless you were maybe trying to learn from a voice acting perspective.

Also the Irish accent most Americans tend to associate with Ireland would be a Northern Irish accent (ie Belfast, etc.),


I've only briefly been to Dublin but did notice that it was easier to understand Dublin English than England English.
 
bostonguy [TotalFark]
2023-02-09 12:46:40 AM  

yakmans_dad: I've only briefly been to Dublin but did notice that it was easier to understand Dublin English than England English.


Which England English?
 
yakmans_dad
2023-02-09 9:30:29 AM  

bostonguy: yakmans_dad: I've only briefly been to Dublin but did notice that it was easier to understand Dublin English than England English.

Which England English?


Micky Flanagam England English
 
Elzar
2023-02-09 1:43:33 PM  

yakmans_dad: bostonguy: yakmans_dad: I've only briefly been to Dublin but did notice that it was easier to understand Dublin English than England English.

Which England English?

Micky Flanagam England English


Kind of like going out out...
 
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