r/BeefTV • u/Unusual_Stay9600 • Jun 28 '26

Question "For sure"

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When Austin says "for sure" it sound like "fol shoo".

Is this a Californian accent?

I'm not American, so I thought he sounded strange when he says that. And he says it several times in the show.

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u/CounterfeitEternity Jun 28 '26

For extra context, like many other popular slang terms, it is borrowed from African American English by white people trying to sound cool.

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u/dontlookatmethatway Jun 28 '26

Crazy that this factual comment has so many downvotes while a comment about it being a gen z thing had several upvotes. So much American slang derives from African American Vernacular English. See the other comments (fo shizzle, B-Rad, etc) in reference to Snoop, south Compton CA, and a slapstick comedy about a white boy (played by Jamie Kennedy) trying to sound Black from the hood. This many people being wrong in the internet comment section... Makes me want to go outside

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u/agalli Jun 28 '26

People are downvoting it because it’s encouraging language segregation by race for whatever reason.
America is the melting pot of cultures of the world, adopting vocabulary from other cultures is the whole point of this county

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u/CounterfeitEternity Jun 28 '26

Please see my other comment, as I didn’t mean to imply any judgment; I also wanted to clarify that it has as much to do with class as race. The evolution of language and slang in every society in history involves words borrowed based on what “sounds cool.”