Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.szaf.org!inka.de!mips.inka.de!.POSTED.localhost!not-for-mail From: Christian Weisgerber Newsgroups: alt.usage.english,sci.lang Subject: Re: Kanye West : =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9CI?= did done call Kim, texted nannies. I got on the phone with ... Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 10:43:37 -0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <0b3ff5d882608e163810a93620ff9a31@www.novabbs.com> Injection-Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 10:43:37 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: lorvorc.mips.inka.de; posting-host="localhost:::1"; logging-data="71461"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@mips.inka.de" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (FreeBSD) Bytes: 1217 Lines: 9 On 2024-04-16, Marius_Hancu 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 -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de