The Space Merchants by Fred Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth is an amazing book regarding capital and concentration of wealth.

Out of my brain on the train!

Me too.

Yes. We didn’t live where there were street lights. At dusk my mother stuck her head out the front door and bellowed my name twice.

That is when I cried.

Worms are insulted. All the work they do being our silent partners, enriching and aerating the soil. They have a purpose. They never shirk their responsibilities.

Walnuts make my tongue sore after two or three bites.

Oh Jesus. That hurt.

So, in answer to your question, yes a lot of people use this vernacular . Sorry about repeat posting.

Most of the enslaved in the US were from west Africa. This region has languages that regularly omit the verb /to be/. The habits of African American Vernacular English are the result of social forces, but rest upon perfectly valid linguistic knowledge .

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This has to do with copular verbs that link a predicate to the subject. The most common verb of this type is “to be”. Often other verbs like “needs“ or “wants” will become the link, while the verb to be is omitted. The transformational grammar here reveals the sentence; It needs “to be “ washed .

Tim, watching the garden from his favorite place.

The sun beats down as I lie on my bench.
I can always hear them talk…
Me, I’m just a lawn mower.
You can tell me by the way I walk.

Freshman year of university. Ahhhh, good times.