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Solsticin · 12-27-2002, 08:50 PM

It's an early English form of ebonics.

"Get yo belief on!"

See?

I'm just here to help

never been there · 12-30-2002, 02:15 PM

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Maybe it comes from living in the South, but it sounds more like "modern redneck" to me!

Actually, there are theatre companies that do Shakespeare with a Southern US accent since it's thought to be closer to Elizabethan (or Jamesian) English than anything spoken in the UK today.

Of course, thinking of the KJV read with a twang sends many IIs into fits!

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Solsticin Regular Member Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Grand Prairie, Texas Posts: 435	It's an early English form of ebonics. "Get yo belief on!" See? I'm just here to help

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