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#1 yellowdingo Jan 01, 2009 2:51:28	So an Australian Woman suffered brain damage and started talking with an American Accent and language structure. OK so all Americans are infact Australians with Brain Damage. That would be fallout from the use of black hole weaponry (Black Holes create change in possibility backward through time).
#2 saintkeeleon Jan 01, 2009 4:40:47	That is awesome! Why would brain damage result in a whole different accent?... A whole new world of possibility has opened before my eyes. Perhaps rather than ordering Rosetta Stone to learn Japanese, I'll take a hop down a few flights of stairs and see what that does for me... That settles it! The next time you see me, I won't remember you, BUT! I will know a foreign language!
#3 Cpt_Micha Jan 01, 2009 6:48:40	There is no way, this is a result of my Singularity Cannons. I refuse to believe it. My warning levels say nothing about brain regeneration as a pleasent side effect.
#4 saint_matthew Jan 01, 2009 9:43:40	I wonder what would happen if you hit a Texan in the head then. I mean once he has stopped beating the crit out of you.
#5 Cpt_Micha Jan 01, 2009 9:51:54	I wonder what would happen if you hit a Texan in the head then. I mean once he has stopped beating the crit out of you. Nah, you just get Bush instead. or wait.. that's when you get a Texan to snort Coke...
#6 warweaver Jan 01, 2009 13:23:59	Nah, if you bash a Texan in the head enough times he either shoots you (we all have guns you know) or you get me (I'm a pacifist). :P
#7 Cpt_Micha Jan 01, 2009 13:32:46	Welcome back Warweaver!
#8 warweaver Jan 01, 2009 13:54:02	Heya - I do sometimes post outside my own thread. :P
#9 Cpt_Micha Jan 01, 2009 13:55:28	Well your thread is just so large, It's like a forum unto itself! I can see why you can forget the rest of the board exists. :D
#10 awesome_dude Jan 01, 2009 14:16:04	OK so all Americans are infact Australians with Brain Damage. Everyone is a brain-damaged version of someone else, except me. I am the original whence brain damage causes a person to deviate.
#11 jackpot_james Jan 01, 2009 16:02:55	I wonder what would happen if you hit a Texan in the head then. I mean once he has stopped beating the crit out of you. Any Texan would fall to the ground and be unconscious, just like everyone else. Why would they be any different from the rest of us?
#12 goblin_pride Jan 01, 2009 16:35:46	Any Texan would fall to the ground and be unconscious, just like everyone else. Why would they be any different from the rest of us? It's the big hair and thicker skulls. Bein' from Oklahoma originally, I can tell that the Texan skull ain't like us regular human beings got. Those people down there are just plain different.
#13 orenthes Jan 01, 2009 18:06:19	This is not unheard of, apparently there is actually a clinical name for this condition (don't remember its name, sorry, google it) a French woman got in some serious trouble after the second World War after developing a German accent, oops.
#14 yellowdingo Jan 05, 2009 4:04:45	Heya - I do sometimes post outside my own thread. :P Wow! They let you have your own Thread? you're so lucky.
#15 Crackerjake Jan 05, 2009 4:11:42	It's the big hair and thicker skulls. Bein' from Oklahoma originally, I can tell that the Texan skull ain't like us regular human beings got. Those people down there are just plain different. My Biology teacher in my Sophomore year always said that Texans were Texans first, Americans second :p
#16 knights_disciple Jan 05, 2009 4:49:28	My Biology teacher in my Sophomore year always said that Texans were Texans first, Americans second :p If you really want to get technical, they were... Native American, then Spanish, then French, then Mexican, then Texan, then American, then Confederate, then American again. ;)
#17 joni-san Jan 05, 2009 12:18:52	Then suddenly, out of nowhere! Secret Native American Commando-Shaman/Wizards! -Joni
#18 batshido Jan 05, 2009 12:28:04	Nah, you just get Bush instead. or wait.. that's when you get a Texan to snort Coke... Actually, that's what you get when you have a guy from Connecticut try to pretend he's Texan, then snort coke. The difference is subtle, but important. As to the OP (which I apparently missed initially), it's not that surprising. The language centers of our brain are very complex things, and the American/Australian gap is much easier to jump than the, say, French/Italian gap. American English is also considered (fairly widely, anyway) to be a kind of baseline for the language at this point. Midwestern accent/inflection in particular. That's why so many newscasters are from Missouri, Oklahoma and Illinois.
#19 Cpt_Micha Jan 06, 2009 9:49:37	He's from Connecticut? Wow... that would be an image destroyer if that ever got out. :D (Not that there would be any image left mind you) Yeah, I'd be a good newscaster as I'm from Ohio originally and still have some of the Ohio accent (it's been mixed with a southern one at this point though... try as I might to get rid of one or the other) Though apparently quite a few people think I'm from California and look and sound like Jeff Gordon. New thread! I will attempt to dispell this belief once and for all! (shame I don't have a mic to address the sounding like issue) I always wondered though about the newscasters thing, though it makes sense if that's considered the "standard" for inflection, at least in America.