TIL about foreign accent syndrome. This is a very rare (~100 cases worldwide) but real medical condition where people abruptly begin speaking in a foreign accent following head trauma like a bad migraine, accident, or stroke. healthline.com Submitted by veety t3_10n49hk on January 28, 2023 at 2:56 AM in todayilearned 188 comments 1,609
Melonqualia t1_j67c2sx wrote on January 28, 2023 at 5:56 AM My niece got hit by a car a few years again and it changed the ways she talked in a weird way. Not exactly an accent, but she sounds like she is permanently doing sort of a character voice. Permalink 6
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