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You must be incredibly stupid not to see how an American born and raised Arizona, midwestern American girl who lived her entire life until her 20s in America, can't suddenly just develop such a thick accent, but also forget basic grammar and sentence structure.
I'm middle eastern. Came here at 14. Every summer break I would go back to the middle east and spend 3 months there, not speaking a word of English. Came back and I didn't speak English like I had a lobotomy.
I like Dern. She's thicc and her BJJ is great, but I also dislike her because of that dumb FAKE accent.
She has a Father who speaks Portuguese to her.
She has a stepmother who speaks Portuguese to her.
She has a boyfriend who speaks Portuguese to her.
She spends most her time in Brazil, and I bet in US most of her friends are also Brazilian.
You go back every year to middle east.
For the past several years, she spoke mostly (almost exclusively) Portuguese. English, despite being her mother tongue, became her secondary language.
It is not only where you live, but how much do you have access to a language.Do you speak arabic (or whatever you speak in your country) with your parents? How about relatives? If so, you keep your mother tongue alive (and yet you still may forget a word here or there, am I wrong?).
If all she is speaking for the past year is Portuguese, then it is natural to "forget" English. And if she doesn't use it, she ends up "translating back" some grammar or sentence structures from Portuguese.
So next time you want to offend, at least make sure you are missing a very important point...
because then the only one who looks incredibly stupid is you.