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Main Forums => Anarchy => Topic started by: Scheherazade on September 15, 2007, 12:18:07 PM
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http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91059-1284155,00.html
Only the Czechs... :-P
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You had fuckin' Nowledge beaten into your brane? That's totally nowledged up.
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Where is the Nowleged up one, anyway?
But all seriousness put aside, that story is pretty wild!
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I recall Fark reported a similar event in India where a kid suddenly began speaking perfect English one day (can't recall if he still spoke his original language though) around a month ago.
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Where is the Nowleged up one, anyway?
Last I heard he was in Florida.
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Cool! I'm going to see if falling on my head will improve my Japanese skills...
私は外人です。あなたはりすですか。はい、そうです。このりすが家の部屋にありません。
IT WORKED!!!! :-o
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This kid just lost his Yorkshire accent.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23412537-details/The+accent+transplant%3A+Brain+surgery+leaves+Yorkshire+boy+speaking+like+the+Queen/article.do
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Cool! I'm going to see if falling on my head will improve my Japanese skills...
私は外人です。あなたはりすですか。はい、そうです。このりすが家の部屋にありません。
IT WORKED!!!! :-o
Oh?
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This kid just lost his Yorkshire accent.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23412537-details/The+accent+transplant%3A+Brain+surgery+leaves+Yorkshire+boy+speaking+like+the+Queen/article.do
I thought that article was pretty cool there. It shows us how much we have to learn about the brain, and how it works. As per what the neurologist suggested as a theory for why he started using the Queens english, I don't agree. I would argue that it didn't cause him to re-learn how to speak, but more that accent was already stored in his head, and when the illness took hold, the pathways that held his origional accent were damaged, so instead of recreating the pathways, the brain defaulted to another set of pathways with a different accent.