[fluff]

A Geordie woman has apparently developed foreign accents after waking up following a stroke.

Linda Walker awoke in hospital to find her distinctive Newcastle accent had been transformed into a mixture of Jamaican, Canadian and Slovakian.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/5144300.stm

The 60-year-old may have Foreign Accent Syndrome, where patients speak differently after a brain injury.

The former university administrator says she hates what has happened to her and now feels like a different person.

Mrs Walker said: "My sister-in-law said that I sounded Italian, then my brother said I sounded Slovakian and someone else said I sounded French Canadian.

"But the latest is that I sound Jamaican, I just don't know how to explain it.

 

[TN]

A stroke will F' you up...sounds like she got lucky.

 

[MMike]

It would be annoying if all she could say were "G'Day Mate! Let's throw another shrimp on the barby!"

 

[ukjason]

Do you listen to Radio 1 fluff

 

[fluff]

Do you listen to Radio 1 fluff

Nah, I'm an old fart and I can't take the gibberish yoof babble that most of the DJs spout any more.

 

[Da Peach]

Losing yower "h"'s is better dan loo-sing motor cantrol of da leftanside of duh budday, n'est-ce pas?

 

[DaveW]

It would be annoying if all she could say were "G'Day Mate! Let's throw another shrimp on the barby!"

 

[Bicyclist]

She got lucky. My mom, a speech pathologist, worked with a guy that could only say the word "seven." He'd put together sentences like "seven, seven seeeven seven, seven!."

 

[Da Peach]

Did they strive for the day when he could say "eight eight eiiiiight, etc..."?

 

[MMike]

YOu're so going to hell for that one.....

 

[MMike]

Or impagine if she could only speak like the Swedish Chef from the muppets?

Yee dee bor shee bor dee goo....

 

[Da Peach]

Or impagine if she could only speak like the Swedish Chef from the muppets?

Yee dee bor shee bor dee goo....

I am from.....PAREEEEEE!