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Belligerent white woman: Could you get of the way?<br/>Black teen: I be trying!<br/>Belligerent white woman: You should speak gramatically correctly!<br/>Smartass: "I be trying" isn't ungrammatical. It's standard usage in African-American vernacular English.<br/>Belligerent white woman: Oh, what would you know?<br/>Smartass: I have a Ph.D. in linguistics from MIT.<br/><br/>--A train<br/>via <a href="http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/">Overheard in New York</a>, Aug 5, 2006
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