Comment on I miss windows

• photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  ‘Be like’ is a new phrase coined sometime in the last two decades, I think. Anyway, it’s widespread, understandable and you’re not going to stop anyone using it. Language evolves! Waddya know.

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  • workerONE@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I appreciate the intelligent response but in my opinion this isn’t an evolution of the English language. It’s like a borrowed phrase from Ebonics which is an English dialect.

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    • Miaou@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why would those two things be mutually exclusive? That it comes from Ebonics, and au the same is becoming used in other English dialects? I have an idea of what the answer is but I’d like to give you the benefit of the doubt

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    • tjsauce@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Does it matter? Saying “be like” feels fun, it rolls of the tongue well. If you understand me, communication was successful, end of story.

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      • workerONE@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah for sure

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• Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Language evolves, even if we don’t like it.

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  • workerONE@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah it does but “I be walking” hasn’t been adopted into the English language and I have like 30 shitposters pretending that it has.

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    • puchaczyk@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For “I be walking” to be adopted, it needs to be used, even if it be incorrect. English language rules be shaped by its usage, not the other way around.

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