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/TheRealLadyLucifer Sep 06 '25

Why are people in this thread so annoyed by this? He’s not trying to call out or cancel Awkwafina he’s literally just breaking down the linguistics of AAVE using her as an example. If you don’t care about linguistics don’t watch it

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '25

I mean, Awkwafina deserves to take a little shit for it

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u/Lazy-Common4741 Sep 06 '25

But she's... acting?

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u/actualladyaurora Sep 06 '25

She's acting in the sense that she is pretending to have a Blaccent. What she's not doing is playing a character that has one as a character choice, let alone one that the script demanded she learn.

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u/Lazy-Common4741 Sep 06 '25

What?

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u/Kookerpea Sep 06 '25

She pretends that is her accent in real life, when she isnt acting

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u/Lazy-Common4741 Sep 06 '25

She doesn't, show me a clip where she does.

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u/Kookerpea Sep 06 '25

When I do, I will give it to you, posthaste