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Many west African languages also have a habitual be! With that grammatical function existing in both Irish and that group of languages, it's no wonder it stuck around in AAVE.

The interesting thing is, like someone else pointed out in the notes, that this habitual be continues to exist in Hiberno-English. However Irish people don’t say “I be climbing mountains on Mondays”. Instead they’d say “I do be climbing mountains on Mondays”. Teachers all over the country tell kids to stop their does be’s and do be’s.

my tuesday ttrpg group is playing a short campaign of DRAGONBANE now that we’ve wrapped the Otari module of Pathfinder… 

 Meet my girl Saoirse, mallard mariner and right hand of a dubious baroness.

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Found this far funnier than I should have

Wait, so is “Sean” supposed to be pronounced more like “John” or more like “Shawn”?

‘Shawn’ usually but there’s no really good way of spelling a j name with Irish phonetics so 'sh’ is the compromise the tweeter went with. Also John is the normal anglicised version of Seán