fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.comM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 months agoit really do be like thatlemmy.dbzer0.comimagemessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageit really do be like thatlemmy.dbzer0.comfossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.comM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square21fedilink
minus-squareAcinonyx@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months ago do be why not just say “is” instead?
minus-squareunexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoIt doobedoobedoooo like dat
minus-squareKrauerking@lemy.lollinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months ago doobedoobedoooo He’s a semi-aquatic, egg-laying mammal of action!
minus-squaredalekcaan@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoBecause they don’t think it be like it is, but it do.
minus-squareHiggs boson@dubvee.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-22 months agoIt’s wording from a meme, which employs an African American dialect. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/it-really-do-be-like-that-sometimes
minus-squarefuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoSometimes they don’t be like it is, but it do.
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vrT0zJBOTA
minus-squareazi@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoIt’s the habitual be, a seperate tense in Black American English
minus-squareRedAggroBest@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoThat wikipedia page is actually pretty interesting! Very interesting that it also exists in Irish-English
why not just say “is” instead?
For the meme
It doobedoobedoooo like dat
He’s a semi-aquatic, egg-laying mammal of action!
Because they don’t think it 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
Sometimes they don’t be like it is, but it do.
Sometimes it bees like that.
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