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Little Star

(17,055 posts)
Mon Jun 17, 2013, 09:45 AM Jun 2013

Foreign accent syndrome?

'It makes me so angry because I am Australian': Tasmanian woman wakes after car crash with a strong French accent
Leanne Rowe started speaking with a French accident after a head injury

Bus driver is one of 62 people diagnosed with 'foreign accent syndrome'
She is also only the second Australian to have ever suffered from condition

Syndrome caused by damage to area of the brain which controls speech





http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2343035/It-makes-angry-I-Australian-Tasmanian-woman-wakes-car-crash-strong-French-accent.html


This was a first for me, I'd never heard of it before. Our brain is very complex.


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Foreign accent syndrome? (Original Post) Little Star Jun 2013 OP
And an insatiable craving for snails? n/t dimbear Jun 2013 #1
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