You are reading a single comment by @Polkatronixx and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
@Polkatronixx
It just reminded me of when I studied English and linguistics in Uni. The profs used to talk about "African American Vernacular English" (although I think we still called it "Black English Vernacular" when I was in school) and would ALWAYS point out how the black use of the word 'be' (as in "I be going to work") was a holdover from West African languages and originally was used to express a habitual tense or whatever that wasn't present in English. Therefore these enterprising Africans started using 'be' to express that.
It's a bunch of bollocks (and has since been discredited). 'I be going to the store' means 'I'm going to the store.'