Current Events: Geordie Stroke Victim Now Speaks With Jamaican Accent...

[Famine]

Yes, a 60 year old woman from Newcastle - who, apart from a short period living in Canada - has lived there all her life and spoke with a thick Geordie accent, now speaks with a Jamaican accent following a stroke...

Story

She is one of only 50 cases of "foreign accent syndrome" ever recorded...

 

[Omnis]

Were her nurses jamaicans?

 

[Famine]

The prevalence of Jamaicans in the Geordie population is not something that troubles the statisticians. Mon.

 

[Omnis]

Lol. Still, you think she would've picked up the accent from somewhere. Does she just have the accent or is she speakin' wid da full patois vocabulary?

 

[3-Wheel Drive]

"What's with your voice?'

"Eh... I 'ad a stroke, mon."

 

[SRV2LOW4ME]

This article is Jamacian me laugh. Now wheres my rum?!

 

[Touring Mars]

"Hey, my granny had a stroke, and now she speaks with a foreign accent."
"Jamaica?"
"No, she does it on her own accord..."

(sorry... )

 

[Kylehnat]

"Hey, my granny had a stroke, and now she speaks with a foreign accent."
"Jamaica?"
"No, she does it on her own accord..."

*shakes head* You have waaaaaaay too much time on your hands.

I expect to see the "Mars Book of Puns" on Amazon.com soon

 

[MagpieRacer]

"Hey, my granny had a stroke, and now she speaks with a foreign accent."
"Jamaica?"
"No, she does it on her own accord..."

(sorry... )

👍

 

[ExigeEvan]

*shakes head* You have waaaaaaay too much time on your hands.

I expect to see the "Mars Book of Puns" on Amazon.com soon

I actually started making the Touring Mars Chronicles but when I re-read my work I became stooped in depression.

 

[Omnis]

What'd really be funny is if she sounded like an exact copy of Barbados Slim.

 

[Danny]

Would this have been possible if she had never heard a Jamaican accent?

 

[Touring Mars]

Would this have been possible if she had never heard a Jamaican accent?

Yeh - not everyone who hears it thinks it sounds Jamaican anyway...

 

[Famine]

Though I can't verify this at the moment, I've heard of at least one case where a stroke victim has started speaking another language, fluently, despite having never spoken (properly) it before - I believe it was an English-speaker (US English) who started speaking French.

 

[Touring Mars]

Das geht sicherlich nicht, oder?

 

[Danny]

Deutschsprechen ist normalerwiese, aber wann du bist russisch sprechen, man Sorgen musse!

 

[Poverty]

how come so many people on this forum know how to write german?

 

[Famine]

Je ne sais pas - je ne parle pas bien Allemand. Mais...


Watashi wa nihon-go o wakarimasu...

 

[Poverty]

you guys using babel fish or something to translate?

 

[magburner]

I remember this story a while back. It can still be found on the BBC News player.

At times the lady sounds a little Jamaican, But its not exactly the same. My father was born and raised in Jamiaca, so I know exactly what the accent sounds like. People have also commented that she sounds French Canadian. This would actually tie in because she actually worked over in Canada many years ago. If you listen to her talking nearer the end of the video, she doesn't sound that Jamaican.

judge for yourself, here is a link to the video: Jamaican?

 

[Poverty]

she dont sound Jamaican at all. Reminds me more of a german english kinda accent.

 

[ExigeEvan]

She sounds a complete mix.

Some of it is like a German/French person speaking English, some is American, some is Jamaican (especially in the middle).

"Well I don't say"- Very, very Jamaican sounding.