Foreign Accent Syndrome: Blame That Bad Sean Connery Lilt on Your Genes

Posted by Mike Richard on February 8, 2008
Filed under: Health, Sidelines

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From the Mental Floss Random Fact Generator:

Foreign Accent Syndrome is a rare side effect of brain trauma, whereby a patient’s enunciation is altered to the point where it begins to resemble a foreign accent. Perhaps the most famous example occurred in 1941, when a young Norwegian woman began uncontrollably speaking with a German accent after being hit in the head with shrapnel. Her community, thinking she had Fascist sympathies, shunned her.

Oh, there’s a recognized syndrome and an affliction for everything these days. And you though Restless Leg Syndrome was odd.

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Vagabondish editor, Mike Richard, lives in Rhode Island - a spit of land in the northeastern U.S. He is a professional web designer and travel junkie with an unhealthy addiction to backpacking, camping, hiking and seeing the world. He enjoys knit hats, small, declarative sentences and speaking in the third person.



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Comments

Blake
February 8th, 2008 - 10:51 am

I once got so drunk, I spoke with a scottish accent for a week. I didn’t mean to, it just came out.


Doru
February 9th, 2008 - 1:52 pm

These things happens indeed! A reletive of mine started to spoke german while in coma and we should to hire a translator!