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Lindsay Lohan speaks in bizarre, never heard before accent

'It's a mixture of most of the languages I can understand or am trying to learn,' says the actress

Maya Oppenheim
Wednesday 02 November 2016 10:45 GMT
Lohan recently visited Syrian refugee camps in Turkey where she reportedly planned on donating energy drinks
Lohan recently visited Syrian refugee camps in Turkey where she reportedly planned on donating energy drinks (Getty)

Lindsay Lohan might have been born in Long Island but she has ditched her New York drawl for some altogether inexplicable accent which appears to combine the traces of most dialects you have ever heard.

The 30-year-old actress has dropped her plum-in-the-mouth Parent Trap English and sickly sweet Mean Girls twang and is venturing down unchartered territory.

Lohan could be heard sporting her new accent while talking to reporters in Athens outside her Greek club opening last month in a video which materialised on Tuesday. Lohan has now explained her new intonation, saying it stems from her penchant for learning languages.

Probed about why she does not sound like her former self, she quipped: “Je ne sais pas.”

“'It's a mixture of most of the languages I can understand or am trying to learn,” she told Mail Online.

“I've been learning different languages since I was a child. I'm fluent in English and French can understand Russian and am learning Turkish, Italian and Arabic.”

She said she did not know what name should be attributed to her new accent and instead declared: "We should let the people decide".

“What should I call me new accent? I'm thinking #LILLOHAN,” she also tweeted.

In the much debated and guffawed at video, Lohan can be heard talking about her plans for the new club and the refugee crisis in her bizarre new accent.

“In the past I’ve been associated with clubbing and nightclubs, I said why not do my own club,” she told reporters. “We have to help other people and if we can do it with a nightclub or with a spa or with refugee camps and containers … We can create peaceful locations where we can all be happy.”

Lohan’s video has prompted all manner of responses. “I can't stop watching. It's kinda Irish, kinda ambiguous Euro, with a dash of Aussie,” tweeted one. “That's kind of Russia meets Irish Lindsay Lohan,” said another.

“The FBI needs to focus on REAL emergencies like Lindsay Lohan's new accent”.

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