Can this really happen or is it just ..........

[Sir-Luggoyo]

Geordie gets Jamaican accent

A Geordie woman woke up in hospital after suffering from a stroke - with a West Indies accent.

Linda Walker of Westerhope, Newcastle, suffered from the minor stroke at her home and was transferred to the local hospital/

She was shocked when she spoke to family from her hospital bed that she sounded like she was from Jamaica.

Doctors diagnosed foreign accent syndrome, where a stroke or knock on the head affects the brain's voice control centre.

After intensive speech therapy doctors think Linda may keep her Jamaican accent for ever.

According to The Sun Linda said: "I just don't sound like me. Not only did I have a stroke but I got lumbered with this accent too. I don't feel the same person.

"Everybody asks where I'm from and, if I say Newcastle, they just laugh. They think I'm lying. A neighbour asked if I was drunk as my speech is slower and often slurred. I just want my own voice back."

Linda is assisting Newcastle University experts who are researching the rare condition.

Dr Nick Miller, senior lecturer in speech language sciences, said: "Foreign accent syndrome has a lot to do with control of the lips, tongue, vocal cords and breathing, which are all affected by neurological damage. As a result a person's speech becomes severely distorted."

Foreign accent syndrome was first discovered in Norway in 1941 when a young woman spoke with a German accent after an air raid.

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Holy crab, what if you wake up one day speaking fluent Abgaal dialect?!!!

[foolxume2005]

Adeer horta waan kusaalamay oo waxaan kugu salaamay salaan loo diro qof la jecelyahay, salaan ka dib what the fock is Geordie?
If I wake up sounding like Abgaal or even hawiye I will kill my self.

[eyes-only]

[Sir-Luggoyo]

Adeer Foolxume,

I am not sure laakin waxaan u malaynayaa dadka deggen New Castle in loo yaqaano Geordies. Bal aan waraysanno dadka deggen ingiriiska sida Coolman iyo Lordiplock

[foolxume2005]

adeer gabadhan yar oo joogta hoostaada maxay la qoslaysaa?

[Sir-Luggoyo]

Adeer

If those are her eyes, she can laugh as much as she wants, I am already melting in her stare. War wuxu indho ku qurux badanaa.

[foolxume2005]

adeer kubadii baa soo gashay islaantiina hilib ari iyo bariis ayay kutuurtay, marka intaad macawis soo gashado ayaan fadhiga fariisnayaa , I will talk to you guys tommorow insha alah.

[eyes-only]

The article sound funny. IÂ’ve never heard of a foreign accent syndrome.

YouÂ’re right though. Geordies are from Newcastle.
Scoucers (form Liverpool) and people from Birmingham also have awful accents. There are also the Irish, Scottish, and Yorkshire accents and there is also the cockney accent and the Jamaican accent – which most young Somali Londoners use. And the Queens accent which is used by people with a carrot up their ass.


There is nothing wrong with the Abgaal accent, its sounds normal to anyone from Xamar just like the reerxamar dialect. I would love the get the eelaay dialect.

[Lord Diplock]

[quote="Sir-Luggoyo"]Adeer Foolxume,

I am not sure laakin waxaan u malaynayaa dadka deggen New Castle in loo yaqaano Geordies. Bal aan waraysanno dadka deggen ingiriiska sida Coolman iyo Lordiplock[/quote]

Geordie is one of the many English (well, it sounds not English to me) accents in England and the people who speak it are in Newcastle area of North East England.

Weird accent.