"My grammar _bees_ ebonics": Nelly

[Wilson Gray]

An instance of hyperblackenization. Grammar isn't distributed over
space or time, nor is it repetitive or customary. Nelly was
exaggerating for effect, laughing at prescriptivists, when he composed
that line.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain


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