“Any man going 50/50 is using his money on sex workers”

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"Men that be going"

I stopped reading at that point.
:mjpls: Lotta grammar nazis around here lately.

Habitual be, also called invariant be, is the use of an uninflected be in African-American English (AAE), Caribbean English and certain dialects of Hiberno-English to mark habitual or extended actions in place of the Standard English inflected forms of be, such as is and are. In AAE, use of be indicates that a subject repeatedly does an action or embodies a trait....

It is a common misconception that AAE simply replaces is with be across all tenses, with no added meaning. In fact, AAE uses be to mark a habitual grammatical aspect, which is not explicitly distinguished in Standard English.

 

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:mjpls: Lotta grammar nazis around here lately.

Habitual be, also called invariant be, is the use of an uninflected be in African-American English (AAE), Caribbean English and certain dialects of Hiberno-English to mark habitual or extended actions in place of the Standard English inflected forms of be, such as is and are. In AAE, use of be indicates that a subject repeatedly does an action or embodies a trait....

It is a common misconception that AAE simply replaces is with be across all tenses, with no added meaning. In fact, AAE uses be to mark a habitual grammatical aspect, which is not explicitly distinguished in Standard English.

Heavy on the nazi lol
 

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:mjpls: Lotta grammar nazis around here lately.

Habitual be, also called invariant be, is the use of an uninflected be in African-American English (AAE), Caribbean English and certain dialects of Hiberno-English to mark habitual or extended actions in place of the Standard English inflected forms of be, such as is and are. In AAE, use of be indicates that a subject repeatedly does an action or embodies a trait....

It is a common misconception that AAE simply replaces is with be across all tenses, with no added meaning. In fact, AAE uses be to mark a habitual grammatical aspect, which is not explicitly distinguished in Standard English.

I know all of this and still find it annoying when its use. Especially if its used excessively. It comes across as perfomative and cringe.
 

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I know all of this and still find it annoying when its use. Especially if its used excessively. It comes across as perfomative and cringe.
:what: Verb usage can be performative now? She's literally describing a habitual action, that of going 50/ 50.

Yall don't be making no sense on here. (See how parsimoniously I was able to say that? Standard English would have required five extra words, if not a whole sentence.)
 

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:what: Verb usage can be performative now? She's literally describing a habitual action, that of going 50/ 50.

Yall don't be making no sense on here. (See how parsimoniously I was able to say that? Standard English would have required five extra words, if not a whole sentence.)
I guess its a personal pet peeve. Lol. To me it seems like she's trying to hard.

But besides all of that her point was kinda dumb anyway. It came across as being edgy for edginess sake. Its popular in our society and its starting to get lame.
 
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