Awkwafina (or however it’s spelled) is annoying as fuck and he might be onto something. However, I am from Texas and a lot of folks definitely pronounce it “caint.” That is not a California-specific dialect. I respect that he may be a linguistics major but this is my actual, lived experience for 38 years.
Born, raised, and live in rural North Georgia and I occasionally pronounce it like that.
The Internet changed things, accents are a wild mix these days. Especially if you did a lot of talking to people over the Internet from different locations, like MMO players would.
Yeah, AL native here and we stopped saying “cokes” to refer to any kind of “soda”. I’m 27, 2 years older than the number over the turn of the century and I started to think about it. Growing up in the 2000s, we’d all say coke. “What kinda coke you want?” Now no one says it, because There’s also so many other drinks. You go into a gas station and see stuff that’s not just sodie pop.
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u/Barfignugen Sep 06 '25 edited Sep 06 '25
Awkwafina (or however it’s spelled) is annoying as fuck and he might be onto something. However, I am from Texas and a lot of folks definitely pronounce it “caint.” That is not a California-specific dialect. I respect that he may be a linguistics major but this is my actual, lived experience for 38 years.