fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 11 hours agoit really do be like thatlemmy.dbzer0.comimagemessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1186arrow-down14
arrow-up1182arrow-down1imageit really do be like thatlemmy.dbzer0.comfossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 11 hours agomessage-square15fedilink
minus-squareAcinonyx@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down9·11 hours ago do be why not just say “is” instead?
minus-squaredalekcaan@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·18 minutes agoBecause they don’t think it be like it is, but it do.
minus-squareunexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·11 hours agoIt doobedoobedoooo like dat
minus-squareKrauerking@lemy.lollinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·10 hours ago doobedoobedoooo He’s a semi-aquatic, egg-laying mammal of action!
minus-squarefuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·10 hours agoSometimes they don’t be like it is, but it do.
minus-squareazi@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25arrow-down1·11 hours agoIt’s the habitual be, a seperate tense in Black American English
minus-squareRedAggroBest@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 hours agoThat wikipedia page is actually pretty interesting! Very interesting that it also exists in Irish-English
minus-squareHiggs boson@dubvee.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-210 hours 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-up2·8 hours agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vrT0zJBOTA
why not just say “is” instead?
Because they don’t think it be like it is, but it do.
Sometimes it bees like that.
For the meme
It doobedoobedoooo like dat
He’s a semi-aquatic, egg-laying mammal of action!
Sometimes they don’t be like it is, but it do.
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
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!
Doobies lol