Recovering brain - French accent
French accent syndrome
Once in a great while people that have had a traumatic injury to the brain, thank God recover, however, with one small quirk. They develop a foreign accent. There are many parts of the brain which are involved in speech. It is not merely a matter of alterations of the part of the brain which control the muscles that produce sounds, something else happens. Some cases have been an English country side boy who developed a posh accent, an American who developed a British Yorkshire accent and a Norwegian lady that developed a German accent. But perhaps one of the most common is English speakers who develop a French accent. In fact it is also referred to the French accent syndrome.
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Tags: English-accent, French-accent, German
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October 9, 2008at 7:21 pm
Well, apparently it is English speakers who are left with a French accent after a stroke and not the other way around. Now we have the explanation why French is in decline and English is thriving. French is better suited to brain damaged people and English to people with a good functioning pair of cranial hemispheres. Fond as the French are of imposing their useless language to others you can bet they are now going to wish they could lobotomize all of us to make us speak like Parisian snobs.
October 10, 2008at 8:52 am
If you want to learn more about the decline of the French language and the pathetic failure of francophone language policies around the world, check out my blog: The Worldwide Decline of French
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