Yes, it's actually a sign of pro-social behavior (or the need to people-please, or put others at ease, especially strangers you have just met or people you want to impress.)
Which can backfire when you do it automatically and people think you're having a laugh.
I genuinely cannot help it, if I try to concentrate on not mimicking someone's accent, I can't focus on what they're saying and it jumbles up my words, too.
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Reply to comment by mercedes_ in TIL about foreign accent syndrome. This is a very rare (~100 cases worldwide) but real medical condition where people abruptly begin speaking in a foreign accent following head trauma like a bad migraine, accident, or stroke. by veety
Yes, it's actually a sign of pro-social behavior (or the need to people-please, or put others at ease, especially strangers you have just met or people you want to impress.)
Which can backfire when you do it automatically and people think you're having a laugh.
I genuinely cannot help it, if I try to concentrate on not mimicking someone's accent, I can't focus on what they're saying and it jumbles up my words, too.