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British woman finds herself speaking with Chinese accent after recovering from migraine

Can you believe that such things happen??? I, as an immigrant living in America, hear no difference between Chinese and English accent. You know that feeling when you watch British film and you wonder what on earth are they talking about?? or when you go to order some Chinese food you hear Chinese language and you feel lost.. its one and the same feeling..so maybe that woman just started paying more attention to her English accent and came to conclusion that English and Chinese accents share similarities!!


"I have my ups and downs about this,." "The first few weeks it was quite funny, but to think I am stuck with this. My voice has started to annoy me now. It is not my voice."


Wow, this is very interesting. Just think about it, you go to sleep, and you think "aw well, another day." After eight hours pass, your alarm screams for attention,,carefully you pull out your hand underneath a warm blanket and you quietly press the button that stops the alarm. Being in a dreamy state you mumble "aw weeelll anoteer dayyyyy". Your husband jumps out of bed and nervously removes the blanket. He says "whats with the accent?"

Now why would that be a bad thing? Your life changes completely, everything changes. You go to work and people wonder whether its you or your twin sister that you have never told anything about. Everyone you see on daily basis asks you about Chinese accent. They ask you about your father and then about your mother and then they ask if any of your relatives are Chinese.All of a sudden people start paying attention to you, the monotony of their boring lives is now disrupted by these very strange news.

"I have had my friends hanging up on me because they think I'm a hoax caller,"

Now thats a bummer, your true and faithful friends are being a little bit racist. But looking at it from a different angle, its kinda cool. Sometimes friends call you when you dont want to talk to them, either you are busy or you want to enjoy the solitude. Your phone rings and all you have to do is say -"Broccoli Chicken restaurant, May i take your order?"

"I just want my own voice back, but I don't know if I will get it back," she said.


Ahha, now thats the trick of life. We dont cherish simple things while we got `em. We only appreciate these things when they are gone. This is an old story of a man that was walking on the street and he was extremely sad and hopeless that he saw no point in life. After deciding to end it all, he started to walk in direction of a tall bridge. On one of the intersections he saw a man of the same age, and surprisingly that man had a face that was very similar to his. Except that it was a face full of harmony. The man did not have two legs, he was rolling on some board with little wheels. He used his hands to push and roll. When one man who intended to kill himself, exchanged a long look with the other man who had no legs, the first man felt ashamed of himself. He had two straight, tall, hairy legs. These same legs attracted women on the beach, protected him against some biting dog, and also served him well when he had any plan of action. So the million dollar question is not whether you have a million dollars, but would you sell your two legs for ten millions of dollars??

As for this poor woman, I hope that she will get back to her clean British accent. Too bad she has migraines because this is the illness that knows no cure. The illness also causes changes in the area of brain that is responsible for speech,what is then called the Foreign Accent Syndrome.

http://www.healthjockey.com/2008/07/04/stroke-leads-to-change-in-the-accent-in-a-lady/