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> merely how they do be Going on a tangent here but I've started seeing more "do be" used lately. However, it doesn't seem right for some reason I can't pinpoi
by gtirloni 4y ago
> merely how they do be
Going on a tangent here but I've started seeing more "do be" used lately. However, it doesn't seem right for some reason I can't pinpoint (English is not my first language).
Is it from a dialect?
- Jeaye 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitual_be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitual_be It's an African American idiom which has bled into Gen Z vernacular, from what I've seen.
- mst 4y agoHabitual be is IMO a fantastically useful linguistic innovation (and I say this as a nearly forty english white dude).