fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 3 days agoit really do be like thatlemmy.dbzer0.comimagemessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1279arrow-down18
arrow-up1271arrow-down1imageit really do be like thatlemmy.dbzer0.comfossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square23fedilink
minus-squareAcinonyx@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down11·3 days ago do be why not just say “is” instead?
minus-squareBlueMagma@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·15 hours agohttps://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-the-emphatic-do-1690590
minus-squareunexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·3 days agoIt doobedoobedoooo like dat
minus-squareKrauerking@lemy.lollinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 days ago doobedoobedoooo He’s a semi-aquatic, egg-laying mammal of action!
minus-squareazi@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30arrow-down1·3 days agoIt’s the habitual be, a seperate tense in Black American English
minus-squareRedAggroBest@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 days agoThat wikipedia page is actually pretty interesting! Very interesting that it also exists in Irish-English
minus-squarefuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·3 days agoSometimes they don’t be like it is, but it do.
minus-squareHiggs boson@dubvee.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-23 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-squaredalekcaan@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoBecause they don’t think it be like it is, but it do.
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vrT0zJBOTA
why not just say “is” instead?
https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-the-emphatic-do-1690590
For the meme
It doobedoobedoooo like dat
He’s a semi-aquatic, egg-laying mammal of action!
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
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
Because they don’t think it be like it is, but it do.
Arrr, OP be a pirate!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vrT0zJBOTA
Glad to see I’m not alone!
Doobies lol