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[Mulboyne]

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NJR but Sarah Colwill, mentioned on the Colbert Report, is suffering from foreign accent syndrome. Even more interesting is the Croatian girl who woke up from a coma speaking German.

[Ganma]

Maybe it's past-life syndrome.

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P.S. Video doesn't seem to work.

[Mulboyne]

P.S. Video doesn't seem to work.

I've tried another one but that might be removed soon too.

[sillygirl]

Mulby, do you remember the Geordie woman who woke up from a coma and started speaking with a Jamaican accent? http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2006/s1679266.htm

(Which is easy. Just say 'beer can' and it sounds like 'bacon' in a Jamaican accent)

[wuchan]

So, if I wack my head I will be able to speak perfect kanto-ben? Shit who am I fooling? With my luck I will wake up speaking in clicks.

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[waruta]

So, if I wack my head I will be able to speak perfect kanto-ben? Shit who am I fooling? With my luck I will wake up speaking in clicks.

I'd rather wake up with an Uchinaaguchi accent, it'd be such a hit at the office...

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BTW, anyone else think that the Uchinaaguchi accent makes Byron sound more of a foreigner than he is?

[Mike Oxlong]

I'd rather wake up with an Uchinaaguchi accent, it'd be such a hit at the office...

BTW, anyone else think that the Uchinaaguchi accent makes Byron sound more of a foreigner than he is?

From what I've read, and the locals I've spoken to, he comes across as an all-or-nothing sort. Feeling unaccepted as a Japanese, he went to the US to be an American. Feeling unable to give himself completely over to uber-Americanism, he moved back to Okinawa and immersed himself in the dead culture of the former Ryukyu Kingdom. Sure, it still exists to entertain tourists and and maintain some sort of regional identity, but to live in a world where one speaks only Uchinaguchi, wears only Ryukyuan clothing, and partakes in none of the cultural blends that have come to characterize Okinawa, seems to be paradoxically a bit unadapted...

[waruta]

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Sure, it still exists to entertain tourists and and maintain some sort of regional identity, but to live in a world where one speaks only Uchinaguchi, wears only Ryukyuan clothing, and partakes in none of the cultural blends that have come to characterize Okinawa, seems to be paradoxically a bit unadapted...

Sounds like he's been through some pretty tough times and if that's the way he feels best handling those experiences, all good to him. I thought he was absolutely incredible. It's the first time I've really heard Uchinaaguchi. I hope he keeps it alive and spreads the word.

[Mike Oxlong]

There is an interview with him that starts about a third of the way down this page:

http://www.japanfocus.org/-Fija-Bairon/2586

[Samurai_Jerk]

I think a lot of these tales are bullshit and people are reading into them what they want. Someone comes out of a coma with fucked up speech and people who really don't know any better think she sounds Chinese. I remember seeing a local news report in Seattle about a lady who woke up with an English accent. They interviewed her and she sounded less English than Dick Van Dyke in "Mary Poppins". He accent sounded weird but certainly not English.

[omae mona]

Mike Oxlong spotted an amusing clip of Stephen Colbert referring to this case of Foreign Accent Syndrome over in this thread.

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