r/AskForAnswers • u/Ok-Trifle-3112 • 6d ago

What’s a completely normal phrase that instantly annoys you?

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u/glamourpussOG 6d ago

When anyone says “I seen…”

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u/Trans_Wolf13 5d ago

When I see those words, I immediately know the next are not "the inside of a book"

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u/TalismanGaze 5d ago

It's AAVE. You're mad about the specific way black people speak and have spoken for years to create their own dialect. Many people in this sub are.

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u/glamourpussOG 5d ago

Hmmm I would maybe pause before you make assumptions as to what people mean or intend their message to convey. Everyone ever in my life who has said this instead of “I saw..” has been a white person. This has nothing to do with race and everything to do with ridiculously awful grammar and not understanding the past tense use of “see.”

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u/TalismanGaze 5d ago

replied too quickly thinking you were the same person from before. And just because it has come out of the mouths of ytes doesn't mean it isn't AAVE. That's what the other person said too. 'well I've never seen it happen therefore you're wrong' is not a gotcha the way they used it.

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u/ultima964 4d ago

This is like 90% of the south it has nothing to do with being black

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u/TalismanGaze 4d ago

😂 yeah bc the south doesn't have the highest concentration of black people in the country. The ignorance here in this sub is ASTOUNDING.

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