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7/4/2006 2:58:16 PM
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Geordie stroke victim wakes up with a jamaican accent!
Geordie stroke victim wakes up with Jamaican accent
By Rod Minchin
Published: 04 July 2006
A Geordie woman woke up after suffering a stroke and started speaking with a Jamaican accent.
Linda Walker came round in hospital to discover her distinctive North-east twang had disappeared.
The former university administrator, from Newcastle, is suffering from a case of foreign accent syndrome, where patients wake up speaking differently after suffering a brain injury.
Ms Walker, 60, told the Evening Chronicle: "I got very down about it at first. It is so strange because you don't feel like the same person. I didn't realise what I sounded like but then my speech therapist played a tape of me talking. I was just devastated."
hehe... could you help reading this bit in a Jamaican accent?
"i got well down about hit hat first. hit iz so batty coz yous don't feel dig da same main geeza. I didn't realise wot I sounded dig but thun me speech therapist played da tape hof me bangin. I wuz just devastated. Ja 'ear?"
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