CULTURETECHLENSain't nobody got time for that
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Fabricius (2019, peer-reviewed, Scandinavian Studies in Language): the phrase comes from Kimberly 'Sweet Brown' Wilkins' KFOR-TV interview broadcast April 8, 2012; her monologue is 'in a basilectal form of AAVE', and its final utterance became a much-quoted meme fragment used to express frustration at time wasted, emphatically rejected.
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Fabricius (2019, peer-reviewed, Scandinavian Studies in Language): the phrase comes from Kimberly 'Sweet Brown' Wilkins' KFOR-TV interview broadcast April 8, 2012; her monologue is 'in a basilectal form of AAVE', and its final utterance became a much-quoted meme fragment used to express frustration at time wasted, emphatically rejected.
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Fabricius (2019, peer-reviewed, Scandinavian Studies in Language): the phrase comes from Kimberly 'Sweet Brown' Wilkins' KFOR-TV interview broadcast April 8, 2012; her monologue is 'in a basilectal form of AAVE', and its final utterance became a much-quoted meme fragment used to express frustration at time wasted, emphatically rejected.
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