Originally published at: Australian woman wakes up from surgery with an Irish accent | Boing Boing
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Huh, since it’s normally associated with head trauma, I wonder if something was off with the anesthesia. What an odd thing!
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My thoughts were that the accent as such comes from tonal pitch during talking more than anything else, it developed from trying to favour her throat and kinda stuck.
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to be sure
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“Bragh do you even lift?”
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(I’d be willing to bet the dialect helped her in her interview, all things considered. ‘Standing out,’ in whatever capacity, is a good thing to have/do once one gets to the interview stage.)
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Perhaps it’s a side effect of the surgery. I know that my accent changed when I had treatment for a throat infection. Numbing my throat so that I was no longer in pain had the side effect of temporarily changing my voice. Perhaps this is temporary or permanent damage as a result of the surgery which has altered how her voice comes out.
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What kind of Irish accent? For example a strong Derry and strong Kerry accent are actually mutually incomprehensible not just totally unlike each other.
I bet you it’s a makey uppy one from the telly.
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Probably from the telly, so next time I’m going into surgery I’m going to binge Derry Girls several times first just in case. I love the sound of it!
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An interesting pastiche of accents from across the country
the Lucky Charms leprechaun
Aaaaand that’s why I hide my accent during most social interactions. Thanks.
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My thoughts as well, or perhaps a mini-stroke while anaesthetised.
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Big deal. Tens of thousands of people come out of surgery with Irish accents every day in Ireland, now Australia thinks it’s hot shit because they’ve got one?
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She’s on one of the major social media sites. I call fake, too.
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I insensitively laughed my ass off, my apologies.
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If she’d woken up sounding like Malcolm Tucker, then it’d be news.
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Or more incomprehensible, Ewen Bremner.
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seems like a not entirely horrible place to ask this: what accent name is ‘properly’ assigned to
David Bradley’s character from Hot Fuzz? (2007)
(and what’s wif the dessert emoji after me name? didn’t order no cake slice. creme brulee for me)
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Happy Cake Day (your anniversary with the BBS).
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Don’t eat too much cake, you get’a stomach’acake.
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Assuming this syndrome is real, how can it possibly work? Accents are learned- you don’t gain or lose an accent just by changing the pitch of your voice, you have to pronounce words in specific, consistent ways. If people who have never had practice doing this before are gaining accents through brain damage, where exactly is this learned knowledge coming from? Most of us couldn’t fake an accent convincingly without practice, even if it’s one we’ve heard many times.
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