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  • Re: Kanye West : =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9CI?= did done call Kim, texted nanni

    From Christian Weisgerber@21:1/5 to marius.hancu@gmail.com on Tue Apr 16 10:43:37 2024
    XPost: alt.usage.english

    On 2024-04-16, Marius_Hancu <marius.hancu@gmail.com> wrote:

    "did done" is Black vernacular, you may find it in Faulkner too.

    African-American Vernacular English has an elaborate tense-aspect
    system different from Standard English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Vernacular_English#Tense_and_aspect

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    Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de

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