Last month, Lindsay Lohan and her Greek “partner” and possible boyfriend opened up Club Lohan in Athens, Greece. Lindsay decided to do what she knows how to do, which is party at nightclubs, and now she’s trying to find some way to monetize that. I have no idea if Club Lohan is successful, but I do know that Lindsay is forever cracked-out. While speaking to reporters outside of Club Lohan, a video shows her speaking English with an extremely hokey accent which few people can pinpoint.
#LindsayLohan has a new speaking accent/mannerism – and it is the most odd and fascinating thing!! Watch HERE! https://t.co/jOGRRXg2lG pic.twitter.com/9beQWIspSQ
— Perez (@ThePerezHilton) November 1, 2016
At times it sounds slightly British, and at times it sounds vaguely like a native Greek speaker trying to speak English, then it sounds like a native Arabic speaker trying to speak English. I have no idea, you guys. What are we going with? Pan-European accent? Pan-crackhead accent? Well, Lindsay loved that her hokey accent got so much attention, so she gave an exclusive interview to the Daily Mail about it.
As to why she does not sound like the Lindsay we have known since childhood, the Mean Girls star joked, ‘Je ne sais pas.’ While she may claim to not know – in French, of course – the now-London based actress put it down to a thirst for leaning languages, but no doubt her trans-European lifestyle also is partially to blame.
Lindsay told the DailyMail.com: ‘It’s a mixture of most of the languages I can understand or am trying to learn.’
And for those wondering at home, the pop culture icon is well on her way to knowing six languages fluently.
‘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.’ While some fans claimed it was a mix of everything from Australian with Turkish to Greek with Saudi Arabian, Lindsay joked on Twitter with the DailyMail.com that her accent should have its own name. The actress tweeted: ‘@DailyMailUK what should I call me new accent? I’m thinking #LILLOHAN.’
The star now wants fans to have their say over what her new twang shall be called.
‘We should let the people decide,’ she told the DailyMail.com.
I don’t believe her. I don’t believe that she’s fluent in French. I don’t believe she’s learning Turkish, Italian and Arabic. I don’t believe she understands Russian. There are absolutely polyglots who can pick up languages with ease, but those people are rarely cracked-out former child stars who have spent the last 12 years in a vat of booze and illegal substances.
Also: Lohan was Harley Quinn for Halloween.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
Are they sure she hasn’t had a stroke?
Lol! 😂
Omg stahhhhppp Melody that’s exactly what it sounds like.
I was going to say alcohol and drug related brain damage, but a stroke is a good guess too.
First, she is SO basic in that Harley Quinn outfit.
Second, just because she can understand some words her jons say in Turkish, Arabic, French, and Russian does NOT make her fluent.
Third, is this the sign that a mental breakdown is near? Like when Britney Spears had the British accent before the 2007 head shave event.
@melly Actually Harley Quinn is that deeply damaged character. I think she fits the bill.
Also, yes, it gets on my nerves when people know two words and memorized a sentence and consider themselves fluent.
I know who Harley Quinn is. I grew up in the 90’s, I watched the batman cartoons, I loved that character before it was widely known. My issue isn’t with Ms. Quinn. My problem is with every girl who dressed in this dumb costume for halloween.
She probably spent the whole night telling people that she would have been so much better in the part and should have been cast.
So true so funny. I can’t decide if this whole mess is really bad or really good
Melly how many men went as the joker? How many dusted off a suit and went as James bond? Why are you only concerned with how many women wore a costume they presumably liked and enjoyed?
Take a deep breath.
What in the world. She sounds like a combination of accents and slurring her words.
Wow! She is SO affected now! I think SHE thinks this is how Movie Stars talk. Even her body language is strange. But she sure loves talking to those microphones. I wonder if she remembers anything she says?
i keep thinking of jenna mahroney in 30 rock… “Le Flour-ee-dah Pahn-Haan-dle”
“She’s fluent in english……”
Um.
I laughed out loud at this.
It was embarrassing but also awesome. Hokey is the right word. Also, if you’re fluent in a language, just speak the language, you won’t have the accent because it’s not your native tongue.
But I hope she keeps doing it.
Yeah, that’s what I thought too. An american who is fluent in english. She is such a talent.
She is also fluent in “drunklish”!
She looks drunkity-drunk-drunk in the video.
i died. shes too much.
Wow. She is as cracked out as ever.
I’ve lived in 10+ countries, speak 4 languages proficiently and can get by in a couple more, and I’ve NEVER lost my native accent. The most I’ve come to is having slightly different intonation after several years in a country.
Lindsay Lohan’s ‘accent’ is just an affectation, in an effort to get attention for how ‘special and European’ she is now. Nobody’s forgotten you’re from Long Island, Lindsay.
But just because that is your experience doesn’t make it everyone’s. I know a man who still has a very strong Boston accent despite being in California for 15 years. And yet another co-worker from the same area but I can barely hear it now and again after his being in being in California for 10 years. Everyone is different as to their linguistic ear.
As for Lindsey, who knows. She probably is speaking Drug-ese as someone down thread wrote.
I’ll have to agree with Crumpet on this one. I was born and raised in Texas, and have lived in CA for 15+ years now. On a day to day basis, I don’t have a discernible Southern drawl. I don’t really “have” an accent of any sort. Most figure out I am not a native CA because of my enunciation of certain words (i.e. route, aunt, etc…). However, when I first moved here, and when I am really really exhausted, I sound country as all heck.
As for Lindsey, that accent is fake as can be to me though. It sounds like she is trying to pull off a “English is my second language” act. I can’t believe her at all.
I think accent loss or gain has to do with your age. My husband and family moved to Canada from New Zealand when he was 15. His older brother was 17 and his sister was 19. They still have strong Kiwi accents but my husband lost his and sounds Canadian with something slightly continental.
Meg’s experience is different. It is not an example of moving around within one country and interacting with others of one’s native tongue. I’m sure an accent can easily change in that instance (or going to another country whose official language is still your native tongue). Listening to Lohan speak, in terms of pronunciation, grammar, intonation, and rhythm, I wouldn’t have guessed english was her native tongue. And that’s what makes this odd.
Every person has an accent….
Reminds me of Madonna’s suddenly English accent after her move to London.
I remember the jockey Steve Cauthen (Triple Crown winner Affirmed) left the US to ride horses in England. Years passed and I didn’t see him, then I saw an interview and he had a full-on British accent! He was from Kentucky!
I think Lindsey is one of those people who pick up the accent of whoever she is with. I don’t think it’s genuine. I think she thinks it makes her sound more “worldly” and “important.”
It doesn’t.
Exactly
If she’s supposed to be Harley Quinn, what’s she doing with the Joker’s mouth?
(you know she tells everyone that role should have been hers)
I believe she is speaking Drug-ese. A common dialect among the chemically challenged.
Uh yeah, she looks so cracked out in that video so it’s no surprised that she sounds cracked out.
Hahahaha 😅😅 @SHELLY* you win the Internet today !!!
Ha! Drug-ese! That’s perfect. I thought she sounded like Balki.
I have not missed reading about this freckled mess. I hope it’s not going to start again.
Disclaimer: Ordinarily I love freckles. I think they’re cute. But she gives freckles a bad name.
Wow, she is so cracked it in that video. And the fake accent? Omg. And the “I’m a victim” schtick again. Seeing her in that video makes me kinda believe the rumors that she hooks. What a mess.
Sorry, I don’t believe for a second that she’s fluent in French. Also, being fluent in English? It’s your native language-that doesn’t mean you get to count it as being representative of fluency. It seems a technicality at best.
I’m pretty sure any Russian, Turkish or Arabic she knows centers around drug or escorting lingo.
IKR? I mean my native language is german and of course I am fluent in it but so is everybody else in their native language (or should be at least). Has anybody ever heard her speak French so we can verify that claim? And where did she learn it? I assume she never went to college and it is not easy to learn a new language.
But what can you say? It`s the cracken and her usual shenanigans… 😉
She spoke French in the parent trap 🤗
Did she say her brand was looking into expanding into spas and refugee camps in the same sentence…? Maybe I wasn’t paying attention, it’s hard with her thick accent😂
Lol. Yes the thick accent makes it difficult ha ha ha.
OMG! It’s the other twin from the Parent Trap!
Hahahahaa it is
Hahahahaha
hahahahahaha
I’d say she sounds like a German who has lived in Scotland for twenty years….and has a drug problem. Ahem.
When you learn another language you don’t gain that accent on your first language. When I learned French I spoke it with an English accent…I didn’t then start speaking English with a French accent! 🙄 She’s fluent in Cracken I’ll give her that!
She was a good little actress in her day, and no doubt has a good ear for accents. I find it impossible not to pick up the local accent of wherever I go after a few days of being steeped in it. I couldn’t believe my ears after 1 week in London at what would come out of my mouth just when going to the front desk of the hotel. I was terrified they would think I was making fun, but they never even noticed. Who cares what accent someone starts using anyway? It seems a strange thing, but by God, people get up in arms about these things.
@crumpet I do the same….did it in England and Mexico more than anywhere…well anywhere but the south…I have a slight twang naturally (mixed with slang and dialect from being a native Pittsburgher YIKES) guess I picked up the southern from my father’s accent, and I’ve lived in the south on and off a few years….but put me back in KY or NC and I’m full country within a couple days! I think it’s pretty common and and she might not be faking it…
I am susceptible to accents and colloquialisms, however, they dont stick around to create a mishmash like this lol
I found something nice to say about her : life in England seems to suit her. She seems to have learnt more about Europe (some words?) and encountered more diverse people (bfs) and cultures (their moms). She seems proud of it (as it shows in her accent).
This is her trying to appeal to her Eastern European/Turkish/Greek/Middle Eastern johns because it reminds them of how their grandmothers talk.
Does she think she is speaking Greek to that reporter or something?! Also, did she say that going out to clubs is somehow helping and celebrating refugees???
Hahahahahaha! She is trying to sound like a Russian mail-order bride! So hilarious and embarrassing!!
She is speaking as though English is her second language. The rhythm of her speech and the choice of words is like she is translating from another language (fluent Cracken) in her head. I suspect she thinks it makes her sound more clever /profound.
It doesn’t.
Yes! Exactly!
It’s like she thinks the Greek people will understand her better if she talks like English is her second language too (not how it works).
It’s possible that because she spends time with people for whom English is their second language, she just naturally mimics their cadence of speech. I do this sometimes, completely inadvertently. Though obviously with Lindsay, it seems more likely to be an affectation.
Yes this exactly! I was just waiting for the “How do you say…?” to come out of her mouth. This is weiiiiird.
This. It’s partly the faux accent but she’s also using stilted English to give the impression she’s speaking English as a second language. She seems to believe her own fantasies. Brain damage? Mental illness? Addiction? Narcissism? All of the above.
She’s at the prime age that most serious mental disorders start showing themselves. I would be willing to bet big money that she has psychosis. She has the symptoms and risk factors.
It sound like some kind of crack-irish dialect. We need more Lohan on here
My fil does this any time we travel to another country where he can speak the language. It’s soooooo annoying. He will suddenly pick up the colloquial accent and insist on speaking like that the entire trip. Drives me mad-especially because I’ve done graduate work in linguistics. You don’t just suddenly start to speak differently unless there’s a medical reason (especially once you pass a certain age in brain development). Ok, off my soapbox. Clearly it annoys the heck out of me…
My fil does this any time we travel to another country where he can speak the language. It’s soooooo annoying. He will suddenly pick up the colloquial accent and insist on speaking like that the entire trip. Drives me mad-especially because I’ve done graduate work in linguistics. You don’t just suddenly & naturally start to speak differently unless there’s a medical reason (especially once you pass a certain age in brain development). After a few years of being completely submersed in only that accent, then yes, it’s possible you start pronouncing certain things a little different. Ok, off my soapbox. Clearly it annoys the heck out of me…
It’s true after a certain age you will not fully develop a new accent, picking up pieces of one like your fil is common, subconscious:, and has nothing to do with a ‘medical condition’
My husband does that too but only when he is repeating a conversation he’s had w/someone in another country or when he is speaking to someone in another country. He has no idea when he is doing it and we all have a good laugh about it. The funny thing is it sounds nothing like the actual accent where he is at the time. It’s really funny.
Ahh the Cracken…she’s so method…’when in Europe I’ll encompass all the accents of fellow europeans’ another Cracken Oscar for our Linsey…
According to DM she was back in England for Halloween. She studies languages like she studied the Quran. I know a few words of Spanish but that doesn’t make me proficient in it.
So in London all of her friends are rich Arab women – and this is exactly how they speak English. I’m sure she’s copying them.
That’s my thoughts too.
is her existence performance art?
b/c it’s frightening…
So is it a night club for refugees or a pro refugee night club?
This is ridiculous. Wow.
She really is not well.
Methinks so as well.
What a Maroon…
To me she sounds like Joey when he was trying to learn French with Phoebe
It kind of reminds me of Soku in the I’ll Kill Her song. Like the lilt at the end.
You know when you’re in grade school, and you’re insecure about who you are and you decide to “try on” the accents/mannerisms/style of the ‘popular kids’? Lindsay’s doing this, except as an adult. She’s trying on someone elses persona and it’s, well sad.
Wow that’s weird, she probably spends most of her time with non-native English speakers and picked up a bunch of accents
Not really. She lives in London. Last time we heard her speak was in the summer. She had an American accent. Now it’s fall and she has some kinda unplaceable vaguely European accent.
She’s done a Johnny depp and created her own accent.
“People make things up about me…” No, they don’t. They don’t have to LOL
That being said I looooooove the Cracken and her Pan-Cracken accent.
Yikes. She sounds just like Marthe Keller, with apologies to Marthe.
That’s not Harle Quin. It’s one of the hookers from “Pretty Women” that just got away after an encounter with Jason Voorhees.
She’s just wasted and trying to speak with a Russian accent, IMO.
This makes me furious. Throw in a few references to “refugees” and she’s suddenly supposed to be relevant, or even political? If she really gave a cr*p about this dreadful and complicated situation, she should be there at one of the camps, or working with Caritas, or doing something behind the scenes, not sticking her face in the camera with that pathetic, fake accent. Help.
Has anyone read up on her ties to Turkey? She said “The world is more than five” TWICE in this little speech, which is the complaint of the head of Turkey about the 5 superpowers. She is in DEEP and probably getting paida LOT. What a shady character.
I believe she speaks multiple languages. Just because she has substance abuse and mental health issues, doesn’t mean she is dumb. If she was exposed to these languages as a child, she can learn most others as an adult because she has a base knowledge of a Germanic and Latin language. She has a lot of issues but I don’t think you should be questioning her intelligence.
You’re right. She is intelligent. Intelligent enough to keep finding wealthy pimps to keep her supplied with drugs and booze and the occasional plastic surgery. Why anyone is putting a microphone in front of her mouth for a three minute interview is beyond me. Aren’t there more important people to interview? Well, yes, there are but they’re probably less amusing.
Uh huh. Then let’s hear her speak in an another language during an unscripted interview. I’ll be waiting patiently for that.
I’m sorry is no one going to address the fact that she’s comparing her nightclub to refugee camps ? That she thinks it’ll help with all the crazy things happening in the world? The accent is just a mess, she’s a slow motion train wreck happening before our eyes. But seriously, what the hell is she talking about lol
Out here in California we call that accent Crackinese
Crackinese!!! I love it!!!
Um… Those two girls in the background… I can’t help but their mimics and gesture tell their own story 🙁 They really look as if they are taking care of Lindsay, thinking: “Na, as long as if the cameras are running, we are letting her do her stupid stuff, but we know it is just crap”, isn’t it? Poor Lindsay. Like a disabled person…
Kind of like Madonna and Tina Turner in the 90’s.
I mean, on one hand, I get it. As any American who has ever lived or even travelled abroad knows, your accent will not grant you a particularly warm reception.
But on the other hand, the whole world already knows she’s a crackhead with no functioning neurons remaining…so in this case, why bother?
She’s sure high on herself.
[*And high, period.*]
This made me so uncomfortable to watch! Bless her…she needs help
It sounds like English is not her native tongue. More like Gloria from Modern Family. Wow!!
What the hell is she even rambling about?? She’s talkIng about refugees, then she’s talking about opening a club? Also, her “accent” just sounds like broken English. WTF.
Spas and refugee camps. Classic Lohan.
There was NOTHING Australian about that accent.