What is your favorite accent? Well, it seems like the British Accent is one of the most exciting accents in the world. I love watching movies, especially if the characters are talking in a British accent. As a Filipino, I usually use the American accent when I speak English cause I really find it uncomfortable using a British accent when I'm surrounded by people who also used an American accent when talking.
Let's make a scenario, Imagine yourself speaking English using a Filipino accent, and then one day you wake up and realized that you're now talking with a British accent without learning how to talk using that accent. Isn't it amazing?
Did you know that such a case happened in England?
A British woman woke up in the hospital and suddenly had a Chinese accent!
In April 2010, after encountering a severe headache, 38-year-old Sarah Colwill was rushed to the clinic. Specialists and clinical staff did everything they could to keep her agreeable, and in the end, the headache was disseminated. Shockingly for Colwill, when she arose the following day, she found that her local Plymouth accent was gone and had been supplanted with Chinese diction.
Colwill was subsequently determined to have Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS), an uncommon clinical condition that makes patients create new discourse designs that supplant their own accents with various ones.
Foreign Accent Syndrome usually is the consequence of stroke or head injury. Yet, migraines and developmental issues can likewise cause it. There were just 62 announced instances of the condition worldwide somewhere in the range of 1941 and 2009.
According to Professor Sophie Scott of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, Speech might be changed as far as timing, intonation, and tongue position, so that is seen as sounding unfamiliar.
However, the reality that the accent isn't genuine doesn't mitigate victims' misery. Colwill grumbles that companions hang up when she telephones, persuaded that it is a hoax call. Scott likewise recalls Kath from Stafford in the Midlands, who turned to carry a note clarifying how cerebral vasculitis had left her sounding eastern European.
I always have migraines, especially when I'm stressed, but obviously, we should try our best to be stressed-free. My suggestion is if you're stressed, then simply read the word "STRESSED" backward, and you'll get "DESSERTS." That's what you need!
Watch Sarah Colwill's interview here:
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