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@ Polkatronixx - yeah, I did a bit of work on the tenses / tense variations of different vernaculars a few years back - it's really interesting. It's amusing as well as disappointing that the linguistic differences between minority / local / black cultures and the white English were perceived as yet more proof of whichever minority's inferior intellect - i.e. they couldn't get it right - whereas after a bit of intelligent research linguists were easily able to show grammatical consistency in all the permutations of English they listened to.