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To: jmacusa
I believe you used improper grammar; that should have been-- "no what I do be talkin bout mofo".
99 posted on 03/17/2015 11:19:32 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: 5th MEB

Well perhaps. There are many dialects to Ebonics. While the ‘’high’’ dialect would be used thus ‘’He be’’ or Mofo be doin’’’.... other ‘’lower’’ forms drop the pronoun he/she and is thus ‘’be doin’. Also other forms of the phrase you point for example is the universal ‘’Know what I’m sayin’?’’. A more idiomatic expression, at least to my knowledge here in southern NJ is “Why you don’t be doin’ that?’’. As in “Why are you doing this?’’ Or ‘’Would you please stop doing that’’.


105 posted on 03/18/2015 8:00:37 AM PDT by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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