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Originally posted by Shalom08
Cash,
You see, to get one's hair "did" as opposed to "done" is a matter of how fierce your "do" looks after having gotten it "done". You must attend a hair show or spend some time in an African-American hair salon to truly understand "did".
But simply put, it's like saying Whitney doesn't "sing"...she "sangs"!
Shalom~
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THAT was AWESOME !!!!!!!!!!! HEHEHEHEHEHE. Also one must go to "the shop" to truly get ones' "hair did" not "to the salon".
Although I WOULD venture to say that although the expression has been around for a while, Missy Elliot DID make the use of it much more prominent in her song.
I agree that it most likely has nothing to do with race. I am black (well at least part of me is) and NONE of my relatives speak "ebonics" as my grandmother wouldn't allow her children to speak that way, hence their children don't speak that way.
I'd wager the problem is that children aren't around enough people who DO speak proper english to know that there is a difference. Everything they are exposed to: Music, TV, the internet, even magazine articles use slang.
The adults in their life who most likely use proper english (teahers, parents etc) are authority figures, and... it's most likely dismissed as "old people talk" and, of course, not cool, and they think it's not necessary for them to speak in the same manner.
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