Me: "How about that James guy, huh? He's obviously fought his way past disability, what a great guy, an example to all of us."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, he's a professor at Oxford, that's quite some achievement"
"So what?"
"Well, I mean, you know, he's gotten past his handicap. You can kinda hear it on him, right?"
"He's Brummie..."
"Is that like a palsy or something?"
"No, there's nothing wrong with him, he just comes from a certain area near Birmingham"
"Ah. I'm gonna go find a rock to hide under."
A few years later, around when I got married:
"Hey Nacho, where are your in-laws from? Your mom and I tried to talk to them"
"They're from Scotland"
"What language do they speak?"
"English"
"What, really? I tried to talk to your father-in-law, I couldn't understand anything!"
"..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_accent_syndrome
Me: "How about that James guy, huh? He's obviously fought his way past disability, what a great guy, an example to all of us."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, he's a professor at Oxford, that's quite some achievement"
"So what?"
"Well, I mean, you know, he's gotten past his handicap. You can kinda hear it on him, right?"
"He's Brummie..."
"Is that like a palsy or something?"
"No, there's nothing wrong with him, he just comes from a certain area near Birmingham"
"Ah. I'm gonna go find a rock to hide under."
A few years later, around when I got married:
"Hey Nacho, where are your in-laws from? Your mom and I tried to talk to them"
"They're from Scotland"
"What language do they speak?"
"English"
"What, really? I tried to talk to your father-in-law, I couldn't understand anything!"
"..."