XPost: alt.usage.english

On 2024-04-16, Marius_Hancu <[email protected]> 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 [email protected]

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