Comments on: Briton ‘Gets Chinese Accent After Bad Migraine’

By: Kevin Dempsey

Kevin Dempsey — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 08:16:14 +0000

This condition is known as “foreigh accent syndrome” and is fairly common.

By: amy

amy — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 23:19:46 +0000

sounds to me like shes just attention seeking, she says her step daughter thought she sounded chinese over the phone and since then she has spoken like that, obv she could stop it whenever she wants

By: Lady Claire

Lady Claire — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:58:14 +0000

I suffer with migraines so this is kind of scary….. Although saying that, I was told by a teacher at school once that I sounded common, so maybe if this ever happened to me I might end up sounding like Joanna Lumley or something!

LC x

By: Famico

Famico — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:23:53 +0000

She should be happy, any accent is better than a Plymothian Janner. “Alreet me burd……..Geddon”

By: Vicki Crane

Vicki Crane — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:21:34 +0000

As someone who has had migraines for over 20 years, all I can say is… Hmmmm….!!!!

For people who genuinely experience migraines (as opposed to people who say they have a migraine when what they really mean is that they have a bad headache!), there are a number of prescription drugs available which treat the cause. Once the tablet or spray has been taken, the migraine goes away within a few hours. Yes, they can be awful and symptoms do vary quite widely; I’ve even had half my body go numb and was totally convinced that I was having a stroke, but the point is that you do recover.

I find it strangely fascinating that all these people seem to have different foreign accents rather than any one in particular. This seems to suggest that there’s an element of choice involved somewhere.

By: mifficat

mifficat — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:43:02 +0000

I know somebody who got knocked over as a kid – when he woke up from his coma he had (and still has 10 years later) an austrailian accent. He has a theory that whilst he was comatosed the tv in his room was on (hearing familiar voices aid recovery) He believes that his recovering brain picked up on the accents on Neighbours and Home and Away. The brain is so odd!

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:35:55 +0000

I knew a guy from Lancashire this happened to – it was crazy and as a kid I was convinced he couldn’t be for real. He’d had an awful accident when a farm tractor fell on him, or something – he’d been in a coma for a long while and after he woke up he could only speak English with a pronounced French accent. He’s been that way ever since! So strange to hear – especially since I knew his whole family, who were a rural lancashire farming family and therefore spoke their local accent VERY broadly!

By: feargal

feargal — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:07:36 +0000

hahahahaha wtf!!

By: Russell Bishop

Russell Bishop — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:05:45 +0000

That is hilarious, more so because she believes you’d have to go to China to know what a chinese accent sounds like.

By: kiki_birdball

kiki_birdball — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:48:52 +0000

I read about this in the paper. Scary how easily affected the brain is….