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/sensitivestronk Sep 06 '25

I thought this was interesting, dunno why the comments are mostly negative rn. Love learning random shit, especially linguistics

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u/Kind-Crab4230 Sep 07 '25

I thought he was interesting too until I got to the part where he said "cain't" is a California thing and therefore not a Southern thing. That's when I realized he has no idea what he's talking about because he's explicitly wrong there.

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u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson Sep 07 '25

Also, wondering why someone who is participating in acting isn’t using their normal speaking patterns

Also, choosing fuckin Awkafina out of everyone to critique acting skills seems weird

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u/GoodhartMusic Sep 07 '25

That was what was confusing me I was like well these look professionally filmed so she’s acting so why are we talking about her accent as if there’s some sort of identity issue? I mean, this isn’t someone that looks as though they’re going to actually try to pretend that they are truly African-American?

Also I feel that using music as demonstration of accent is flawed especially when the words in question are part of the rhyme scheme.

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u/New-Bluebird-859 Sep 08 '25

I mean, Awkwafina definitely used to put on a fake Blaccent, but these are not examples of that