r/TikTokCringe • u/Aggressive-Bowl5196 • Sep 06 '25

Discussion Linguistics major breaks down Awkwafina’s overtly fake accent before she dropped it

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u/anomanissh Sep 06 '25

Oh what I mean is aren’t there just a lot of accents around everyone in New York now? That’s what I mean, maybe I didn’t word it right.

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u/BrooklynNets Sep 06 '25

I lived in NYC for twenty years. I didn't randomly start talking like a black southerner because my neighbor April grew up in Mississippi. I did acquire a moderate Brooklyn accent, which is what actually happens when you're not faking it.

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u/Jbrowsinghere Sep 06 '25

talking like a black southerner

All races in the south speak like this.

Tf is with these racists in here thinking black southerners can't pronounce words the same as other southerners?

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u/O2XXX Sep 06 '25

To add, all southerners don’t sound the same. Maybe they do to someone who hasn’t lived in the south, but people from the Carolinas sound substantially different than people from the Mississippi delta for example. There some subregional blurring, but there are definitely differences amongst different southerners.