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		narag 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Map of British Dialects (2023) I had the opposite confusion. I asked the sysadmin where he was from, I had guessed Germany. He told me he was from Madrid, just had to relearn speaking after he had a brain tumor removed a few years before.

hermitcrab 10 months ago [–]

There is also a strange thing called 'foreign accent syndrome':

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_accent_syndrome

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