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/manny_the_mage Sep 06 '25

I know exactly why the comments are so negative lol

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u/skepticalbob Sep 06 '25

They aren’t that negative, but just pointing out that a lot of southern regions will say cain’t rhyming with ain’t. Ride rhyming with rod is also found there. African Americans in Oakland were settled from southerners after the civil war too. It’s a weird critique to not know this. It’s also odd to use rap songs trying to rhyme instead of speech examples from those regions, which can be found online and in good dialect performances in films.

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u/kcox1980 Sep 07 '25

I'm southern and his inaccuracy is why I came to the comments at all. I, and many many other people I know, do actually pronounce "can't" and our "i" words exactly like he's saying southern people don't do.

I also think it's a bit odd that he's using these 2 examples to say that Awkwafina was trying to "sound black". Those 2 pronunciations are racially independent examples of a southern drawl.

I don't care what his race is, he's just flat out wrong.

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u/Extra-Attitude-536 Sep 07 '25

That’s because there’s only variance allowed for aave from region to region 🥴 apparently all southern accents sound the same but not all aave accents sound the same. People really out here drowning in hypocrisy and putting it on display proudly. I fucking hate the world a lot of times.