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neptunekh
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20 Jan 2016, 9:25 pm

Do some people with down syndrome sound almost German when they speak?
It kinda sounds that way to me.



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20 Jan 2016, 9:58 pm

Nope....

They have speech problems because their tongues are too large for their mouth.



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20 Jan 2016, 10:06 pm

They also have less motor control than people without trisomy-21.

The only ones who have "German" accents are the ones whose first (and possibly only) language is German.


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22 Jan 2016, 12:09 am

I don't hear any German accents from speakers who have Down's. I just hear lax speech muscles and a tongue that is too large as Kraftie and Fnord said.