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People are obsessed with the savage comeback that ended this academic beef

‘Sorry to hear that.’

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The adorable video of a father talking to his baby son took a turn after two linguistics got into a tiff regarding “baby talk.”

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The tiff was between Karla Holloway and Carina Hilbert, both of whom tried to assert their linguistic knowledge onto whether the baby would develop greater speech comprehension patterns as a result of the baby’s father speaking to him like an adult.

To sum it up, Professor Holloway, who has a doctorate degree, claims speaking to a baby like an adult is good for speech, while Hilbert, who has her master’s degree, claims baby talk is good for babies.

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“Yeah, my master’s in second language acquisition from USC with Krashen-trained profs is worthless,” Hilbert wrote.

That’s the moment that set Holloway up for the ultimate comeback.

“Sorry to hear that,” Holloway replied.

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Twitter was shook. Shook.

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Holloway’s reply, alone, racked up more than 16,000 likes–and ascended her to legend status.

Screenshots posted by @dreamgirlphae called out Hilbert, who is a white woman with a lesser degree, for thinking that she was smarter than a Black woman with the highest level of an academic degree.

“Today in white women think they’re smarter than everybody. Niece literally tried to match a Ph.D….with her masters. Goodnight.”

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https://twitter.com/DreamGirlPhae/status/1137077475941527554

But Holloway hit back at those who thought this was a racial incident, rather, stating it was just two educated women differing on the science of language acquisition.

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“People, this is not about race …. I’m old enough (older than all y’all I suspect) to recognize bias,” she reiterated.

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Luckily, both women are taking the incident in stride, with Hilbert commenting Holloway on her classic comeback, and Holloway calling Hilbert her “new twitter friend.”

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Finally, Twitter beef that ended peacefully–or without anyone losing their job.

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