Foreign accent syndrome
Dear International Scrubs,
Good evening. I hope you are enjoying a pleasant evening out on the porch like me. There is nothing like an open garden, green grass and squirrels dashing around getting ready for hibernation. Watching a squirrel in motion reminds me of next topic students, and that is the "foreign accent syndrome".
Not many people have heard of this syndrome, and most of those that have heard of it do not believe it exists. Well I can jolly well asure you all it does exist, because your heroic teacher (myself ofcourse) has suffered himself from this terrible plight.
The foreign accent syndrome is a rare medical condition that usually follows a severe brain injury, such as a stroke or a head injury. The syndrome causes people to speak their native language as if they had a foreign accent, for example, a true Brit with a perfect accent may speak like a yank, or a frenchman like a german! There have been fewer then 15 cases of foriegn accent syndrome reported worldwide!
Let me tell you fellows, that I too have suffered with this condition. I will let you into a secret of mine - before I became a professor of medicine, I worked for the MI5 as a spy. This was during the cold war ofcourse and I spent much time spying in the communist block. I was caught after an unfortunate incident (I will tell you about that later) and I spent 2 years in a communit jail. There I was beaten and tortured by communist guards. Do not worry my loyal readers, your professor did not disclose the secrets of our chemical and biological weaponry. I was not going to let our secrets go to the enemy, despite the punishment I took.
And even now, to this day, I wake up in the night with a sweat, and speak in a thick russian accent: "Dieee you bald british b**tard" and everything I say is with a Russian accent for a few hours thereafter. So Im afraid it is true folks, the foreign accent syndrome is real, and I suffer with it.
More recently, a geordie woman (woman from Newcastle) suffered a stroke and ended up with a Jamaican accent. The suffereing, the suffering, will God ever make it stop...
Read more about the case here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/5144300.stm
And more about the syndrome here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_accent_syndrome
This was the prison guard that tortured me in Russia:
Do svidaniya!
Professor Scrub
Good evening. I hope you are enjoying a pleasant evening out on the porch like me. There is nothing like an open garden, green grass and squirrels dashing around getting ready for hibernation. Watching a squirrel in motion reminds me of next topic students, and that is the "foreign accent syndrome".
Not many people have heard of this syndrome, and most of those that have heard of it do not believe it exists. Well I can jolly well asure you all it does exist, because your heroic teacher (myself ofcourse) has suffered himself from this terrible plight.
The foreign accent syndrome is a rare medical condition that usually follows a severe brain injury, such as a stroke or a head injury. The syndrome causes people to speak their native language as if they had a foreign accent, for example, a true Brit with a perfect accent may speak like a yank, or a frenchman like a german! There have been fewer then 15 cases of foriegn accent syndrome reported worldwide!
Let me tell you fellows, that I too have suffered with this condition. I will let you into a secret of mine - before I became a professor of medicine, I worked for the MI5 as a spy. This was during the cold war ofcourse and I spent much time spying in the communist block. I was caught after an unfortunate incident (I will tell you about that later) and I spent 2 years in a communit jail. There I was beaten and tortured by communist guards. Do not worry my loyal readers, your professor did not disclose the secrets of our chemical and biological weaponry. I was not going to let our secrets go to the enemy, despite the punishment I took.
And even now, to this day, I wake up in the night with a sweat, and speak in a thick russian accent: "Dieee you bald british b**tard" and everything I say is with a Russian accent for a few hours thereafter. So Im afraid it is true folks, the foreign accent syndrome is real, and I suffer with it.
More recently, a geordie woman (woman from Newcastle) suffered a stroke and ended up with a Jamaican accent. The suffereing, the suffering, will God ever make it stop...
Read more about the case here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/5144300.stm
And more about the syndrome here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_accent_syndrome
This was the prison guard that tortured me in Russia:
Do svidaniya!
Professor Scrub
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