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 agoI 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.
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