Pipoca

Pipoca, 10 months ago

I don’t really think it’s better. They’re fine for coding.

They’re basically the corporate default because they’re easier for companies to buy and remotely administer, they’ve got good VPN software, good resale value, etc.

Pipoca, 10 months ago

That’s different, in that its grammatical in a dialect but not in Standard American English.

In particular, it’s using the ‘habitual be’. It’s saying something like “people don’t think it always is like it currently is, but it’s always like this.”

Pipoca, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

“They don’t think it be like it is, but it do” is originally a quote from a Yankees player, Oscar Gamble, about Yankees management in 1975.

It’s a sensible, grammatical construction in his native dialect, but is well remembered mostly because it isn’t very sensible in SAE.