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If you're a loyal listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about how foreign accent syndrome works, how an AI algorithm can create a

physical copy of a mental picture, and how invasive marshgrass is taking over China's coastline. Without further ado, let's satisfy some

curiosity. One of the scariest parts about surgery of any kind is the fear of

unexpected side effects and one American man got a little more than he bargained for after his surgery

when he permanently developed an Irish accent.

Sorry, what? No, don't. No, don't see Irish.

I can't actually do an Irish accent, so.

Okay, on a more serious note, depending on the type of surgery you get, the most common side effects are usually things like

nausea, vomiting, soreness, pain, thirst, like stuff like that, but I've never heard of somebody getting a new

accent after surgery. So it's actually a little more common than you might think and is a

fully diagnosable condition known as Foreign Accent Syndrome or FAS for short. It's a speech disorder that causes a very sudden change to somebody's speech patterns and the name is sort of misleading to since you're not

Technically adopting a full foreign sounding accent rather it's a sort of neurological dysfunction that alters a person's natural speech patterns in a way that

can sound like a slightly different and maybe even exotic accent.

Most of the time it's caused by a traumatic brain injury, but in this case it was an effect of surgery.

And there's another example from back in 2018, an American woman was suffering from severe migraines and then began speaking in what others described as as a British accent and she

never stopped.

Had she ever been to Britain?

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