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[-] Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org -4 points 1 week ago

do be

why not just say "is" instead?

[-] Cano@lemm.ee 46 points 1 week ago
[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 week ago
[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 8 points 1 week ago

doobedoobedoooo

He's a semi-aquatic, egg-laying mammal of action!

[-] azi@mander.xyz 30 points 1 week ago

It's the habitual be, a seperate tense in Black American English

[-] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

That wikipedia page is actually pretty interesting! Very interesting that it also exists in Irish-English

Sometimes they don't be like it is, but it do.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 week ago

Sometimes it bees like that.

[-] higgsboson@dubvee.org 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's wording from a meme, which employs an African American dialect.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/it-really-do-be-like-that-sometimes

[-] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Because they don't think it be like it is, but it do.

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