But the professor said he actually thinks the tweet was intended to be an affirmative ode to Abby using African American language that positively describes women, and he said he wouldn’t be surprised if the author was African American or familiar with black culture and language. The line “Abby is a thicc girl” retains the verb before the noun phrase but not before the adjective “chonk” — the correct usage of AAVE grammar based on decades of studies, Rickford said.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 21, 2018 00:33 UTC