"He BE working. He just don't STAY working."

Thu Feb 7 20:18:30 UTC 2013

This looks normal to me and Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American_Vernacular_English#Tense_and_aspect) seems to confirm it.

Benjamin Barrett
Seattle, WA

On Feb 7, 2013, at 12:12 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> Subject:      "He BE working. He just don't STAY working."
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> He loses jobs as fast as he gets them.
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> Fifty-ish, black female speaker, his mother.

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