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kf1920 t1_j8r2zga wrote

An actual Irish accent or the fake one the Americans think all of Ireland has?

That said, he has Irish ancestry so it's strange how it's happened. Freaky even

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Volomon t1_j8rhpwm wrote

Ah it's kinda normal when you brain gets damaged it will revert to the things that make sense to you and usually that's an earlier language or even one you've been exposed to.

Happens all the time with dementia patients. They'll speak English for 80 years but when they were 5 they might have spoken French. They will latch on to when they were 5 as their brain deteriorates. I assume it's cause these kinds of things occupy less space than the decades of English memories.

Not sure why it happened in this case but it's not unheard of for other ailments.

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Welpmart t1_j8sso4j wrote

An excellent question. Sometimes people get wildly incongruous accents from this and I always wonder. Tbf, it's often easier to perceive differences than produce them yourself, so maybe the cancer unlocked the real thing.

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