fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.comM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 7 days agoit really do be like thatlemmy.dbzer0.comimagemessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageit really do be like thatlemmy.dbzer0.comfossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.comM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square19fedilink
minus-squareAcinonyx@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 days ago do be why not just say “is” instead?
minus-squaredalekcaan@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 days agoBecause they don’t think it be like it is, but it do.
minus-squarefuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 days agoSometimes they don’t be like it is, but it do.
minus-squareHiggs boson@dubvee.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-27 days agoIt’s wording from a meme, which employs an African American dialect. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/it-really-do-be-like-that-sometimes
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 days agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vrT0zJBOTA
minus-squareazi@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 days agoIt’s the habitual be, a seperate tense in Black American English
minus-squareRedAggroBest@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 days agoThat wikipedia page is actually pretty interesting! Very interesting that it also exists in Irish-English
minus-squareunexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 days agoIt doobedoobedoooo like dat
minus-squareKrauerking@lemy.lollinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 days ago doobedoobedoooo He’s a semi-aquatic, egg-laying mammal of action!
why not just say “is” instead?
Because they don’t think it be like it is, but it do.
Sometimes it bees like that.
Sometimes they don’t be like it is, but it do.
It’s wording from a meme, which employs an African American dialect.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/it-really-do-be-like-that-sometimes
Arrr, OP be a pirate!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vrT0zJBOTA
Glad to see I’m not alone!
It’s the habitual be, a seperate tense in Black American English
That wikipedia page is actually pretty interesting! Very interesting that it also exists in Irish-English
For the meme
It doobedoobedoooo like dat
He’s a semi-aquatic, egg-laying mammal of action!