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I regularly have students praying fervently that they will wake up one morning being fluent in a Biblical language, but I had never heard of \u2018foreign language syndrome\u2019 until now. A person has a stroke or the like, and wakes up with a different accent, in this case, a British accent. Weird, but somehow wonderful. What sayeth thou brain scientists??? BW3<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"