Iโve been reading about Black English and found this fun illustration of the habitual โbeโ, which is a grammatical aspect that indicates regular behavior. The correct answer here is Cookie Monster, very unintuitively for most white English speakers. pic.twitter.com/qv1P2Ptgk0
โ Lilah Sturges (@LilahSturges) April 13, 2022
I grew up in the rural South so totally normal for me.
Hint for Northern Libs: AAVE and the Southern dialect overlap a lot. No, we arenโt appropriating black culture, yes, thatโs how we grew up talking, and yes, please shut the fuck up.