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is when people confuse the “habitual be” and the “copula be.”

The “habitual be” connotes something that the subject does often; or something that she or he is known for doing. For example:

She be lyin’ He be in that store everyday We be doin’ our homework I be dancin’

The “copula be” in Ebonics is almost never present. The copula is the manifestation of the verb “to be.” In Ebonics, we have what is known as the zero copula.

[jillyyfish]

Before joining tumblr I actually thought that AAVE speakers just use “be” whenever standard-English speakers use “is.” which is ridiculous, but apparently every white person appropriating AAVE (at least every one I’ve heard) thinks the same thing. 

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Theory lingo to look up

essentialism

performativity

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Pumpkin Cupcakes

1 cup of Sugar 1 cup of All Purpose Flour 1/3 cup of Vegetable Oil 2 Eggs ½ tsp of Vanilla Extract ¾ cup of Pure Pumpkin Puree 1 tsp of pumpkin pie spice 1 tsp of Baking Soda ½ tsp of Baking Powder ¼ tsp of Salt

"usually with simple cakes you mix together the fat and the sugar first, so here the oil and sugar, and then add the rest of the wet ingredients, and separately combine the dry, and then mix the wet and dry together"

Source: the wonderful Joanna P, via fb

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New Orientalism and The Kite Runner

I was venting to my sister about my frustrations with Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, a book I'm reading in English Class, and she told me I ought to look up "new orientalism." 

Sources:

two wikipedia articles

https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/05/6192