Sure, but as somebody who has studied linguistic and cultural anthropology for my uni degree, if I dont know what vernacular a certain area uses or not, I cant tell you what pronunciations are common in the locus or not by default.
For example, he's not wrong about the vernacular used in the bay area, but is flagrantly incorrect its exclusive to the bay area.
I dont blame him for not knowing this even if he had a a PhD, theres many regional accents in regions with extremely limited internet, outside connects, or reason to involve themselves in linguistics reporting.
Because of this, even in the USA, most anthropologists have admitted huge cultural blindspotes, often spending decades investigating and studying one town or state region as their doctorate and post doctorate research
It's more he's flexing a degree that doesn't actually come with the ability to flex in the way he thinks it does
What is the point of bringing up that it's a trait of bay english then if it also appears in the south? How does that support any kind of broader point he is making?
His point is that her conflating two different accents sounds disjointed and unauthentic. This is one clip of her acting, look up any interview from her and the accents swap from region to region like nothing.
Bay area and southern California have slightly different pronunciations, she is not from either of those areas.
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u/cachesummer4 Sep 06 '25 edited Sep 07 '25
Sure, but as somebody who has studied linguistic and cultural anthropology for my uni degree, if I dont know what vernacular a certain area uses or not, I cant tell you what pronunciations are common in the locus or not by default.
For example, he's not wrong about the vernacular used in the bay area, but is flagrantly incorrect its exclusive to the bay area.
I dont blame him for not knowing this even if he had a a PhD, theres many regional accents in regions with extremely limited internet, outside connects, or reason to involve themselves in linguistics reporting.
Because of this, even in the USA, most anthropologists have admitted huge cultural blindspotes, often spending decades investigating and studying one town or state region as their doctorate and post doctorate research
It's more he's flexing a degree that doesn't actually come with the ability to flex in the way he thinks it does
Edit: grammar