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person raised in a society where accent subtleties are *extremely* rigid and powerful status signals cannot comprehend a world where expressions travel freely due to sheer scale

The flip side to this is that there is a filter (some would say gatekeeping) where some words are acceptable to adopt but not others. There's no problem saying y'all or even no cap but you would look weird af trying to use finna But there's also a gen gap where the kids do not hesitate to adopt it

I was in a board meeting where some of the older white guys were complaining about not knowing certain 'new words the younger crowd was using' and I instantly knew they only had white friends because black people been using those for decades and Latinos adopted it not that long after.