I had a friend who had an Australian accent 5 years after hanging out with a couple of Australian people for a while (and doing a bunch of drugs). They had never been to Australia and had not talked with anyone with the accent in the last 5 years. It was wild.
Ashmeads_Kernel t1_j68xz4e wrote
Reply to 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. by veety
I had a friend who had an Australian accent 5 years after hanging out with a couple of Australian people for a while (and doing a bunch of drugs). They had never been to Australia and had not talked with anyone with the accent in the last 5 years. It was wild.