doublepepperoni [none/use name] to chapotraphouse • 11 months agoI love hearing increasingly tortured euphemisms for death, murder and suicide because people don't want to get flagged by bots looking for advertiser-unfriendly contentmessage-squaremessage-square74 fedilinkarrow-up1182file-text
arrow-up1182message-squareI love hearing increasingly tortured euphemisms for death, murder and suicide because people don't want to get flagged by bots looking for advertiser-unfriendly contentdoublepepperoni [none/use name] to chapotraphouse • 11 months agomessage-square74 Commentsfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareFrank [he/him, he/him]hexbear47·11 months agoLanguage do be rapidly evolving in fascinating and unpredictable ways. link
minus-squareGarbageShoot [he/him]hexbear8·edit-211 months agoThat one is just longstanding AAVE, "do be" is a present progressive meaning something like "has been frequently known to be". "He do be working" therefore is like "He has been working a lot lately". link
minus-squareBay_of_Piggies [he/him, comrade/them]hexbear5·11 months agoI say it all the time, it's fun and less of a mouthful. link
Language do be rapidly evolving in fascinating and unpredictable ways.
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That one is just longstanding AAVE, "do be" is a present progressive meaning something like "has been frequently known to be". "He do be working" therefore is like "He has been working a lot lately".
I say it all the time, it's fun and less of a mouthful.
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