They dressed casual as fuck in an obviously high end dining establishment. Hurley shirt guy and his girl gonna be fine. They're both loaded to the gills.
Edit: Wow this certainly blew up, and it's been amazingly effective at identifying a whole bunch of arrogant twats that I needed to block, because they clearly have nothing to say that interests me.
Zero copula is a common but not obligatory part of African American English grammar that can occur just about any time you could contract "is" or "are" to " 's" or " 're" in Standardized/General American English:
"His name's Steve" "His name Steve"
"We're leaving" "We leaving"
"I know who that is" "I know who that is" (ungrammatical to contract, ungrammatical to remove copula is)
Regarding "gone": In casual speech, the kind most people use everyday when talking to one another, vowels become more centralized and consonants are removed or articulated as flaps or taps or otherwise assimilated to better accommodate faster speech. This has been studied in English, Dutch, and German at least. Some examples are "going to" -> "gonna" and "I don't know" -> "I dunno", which have transcended phonology into our orthography. I'm not sure what process explains the "gone" variant, which is just "gonna" without the schwa at the end, but yes, many Black Americans say that.
Yeah, it's a written representation of a verbal phrase. I would've written gon' with an apostrophe for marking that it's a shortened version of the word "gonna" but it's like spelling out the more phonetically accurate form of an abbreviated or contracted word, like "fridge" instead of "frig" or "Mike"/"Tom"/"Joe" as shortened versions of "Michael"/"Thomas"/"Joseph."
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fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk · 173 pts · 77d
That's not a shitpost.
This is a shitpost.
sbv@sh.itjust.works · 56 pts · 77d
Zetta@mander.xyz · 6 pts · 77d
I've never seen this image before and it's the first post I've seen on social media to actually make me laugh outloud in... A very long time lol
iusemybrain@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 76d
hippity hoppity this meme is now my profile picture
Hupf@feddit.org · 34 pts · 77d
What a beautiful day to have eyes.
Fallofturkey@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 77d
I'm not crying, you're crying
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 26 pts · 77d
You made this?
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk · 64 pts · 77d
I can't tell if you're impressed or disappointed.
To cover both:
architectonas@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 77d
I for one am impressed. Good job sir!
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 77d
You have a rare talent
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 77d
When talent meets dedication
Sunshine@reddthat.com · 13 pts · 77d
Defecation*
ickplant@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 77d
I’ve never seen anything so beautiful in my entire life 🥹
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 77d
Look in the mirror, baby <3
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 77d
Now the reactions make sense
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 77d
Perfect
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 77d
True art
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 76d
This is the best thing I've seen all day.
iusemybrain@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 76d
reactions check out.
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works · 58 pts · 78d
“Hey babe, remember last week we saw that guy propose to his girl…?”
“Hey babe, remember a couple weeks ago we saw that guy proposing…”
“Baaaabe…remember last month when we watched that guy propose to his gf?”
“Hey Shane, I was just thinking about that time back in April that guy at the table next to us proposed to his woman…”
“Hey dickhead, you putting a ring on this or what?”
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 77d
They dressed casual as fuck in an obviously high end dining establishment. Hurley shirt guy and his girl gonna be fine. They're both loaded to the gills.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 77d
Goes to sex shop for a Ring
EffortlessGrace@piefed.social · 1 pts · 77d
If she calls you a "dickhead" for not buying her a ring and proposing, she's for the streets.
SillyDude@lemmy.zip · 40 pts · 77d
I love when proposal pictures are cropped so it looks like they're commiting seppuku.
danekrae@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 77d
"OMG, what are you doing?! "
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip · 19 pts · 78d
He's outside of the blast radius. (I'm assuming this is the aftermath of the guy in the foreground ripping ass, right?)
BenLeMan@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 77d
Just what I was thinking. The OP is named Toots, after all.
Gerudo@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 77d
l always love how the 2 in the back are in super casual clothes, but the 2 in front are all formal.
doctordevice@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 77d
Looks like the restaurant in the Space Needle (Seattle). Casual clothes in fine dining is common here.
bitchkat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 77d
Only two of them were there to get engaged.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 78d
Bro is making eye contact with the camera lol
Klear@piefed.world · 6 pts · 78d
He'll be fine. He's got a good thing going in Videlectrix.
gray@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 77d
Straight and boomer humor? On my lemmy?
protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 77d
some people here are in their 40s
zarathustrad@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 77d
Representation matters.
darthsundhaft@piefed.social · 5 pts · 77d
He's a real one.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 77d
Bad day for a breakup
smeenz@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 77d
"His girl gone talk"
Jfc... is this how people speak these days ?
Edit: Wow this certainly blew up, and it's been amazingly effective at identifying a whole bunch of arrogant twats that I needed to block, because they clearly have nothing to say that interests me.
ntd_quiet@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 77d
Zero copula is a common but not obligatory part of African American English grammar that can occur just about any time you could contract "is" or "are" to " 's" or " 're" in Standardized/General American English:
Regarding "gone": In casual speech, the kind most people use everyday when talking to one another, vowels become more centralized and consonants are removed or articulated as flaps or taps or otherwise assimilated to better accommodate faster speech. This has been studied in English, Dutch, and German at least. Some examples are "going to" -> "gonna" and "I don't know" -> "I dunno", which have transcended phonology into our orthography. I'm not sure what process explains the "gone" variant, which is just "gonna" without the schwa at the end, but yes, many Black Americans say that.
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 76d
Yeah, it's a written representation of a verbal phrase. I would've written gon' with an apostrophe for marking that it's a shortened version of the word "gonna" but it's like spelling out the more phonetically accurate form of an abbreviated or contracted word, like "fridge" instead of "frig" or "Mike"/"Tom"/"Joe" as shortened versions of "Michael"/"Thomas"/"Joseph."
wieson@feddit.org · 2 pts · 77d
Oh noo people writing in dialect... i konns nimmie uesholte. Bringts mi ums eck
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 76d
Yeah god forbid we have dialects. Get off your pedestal.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 77d
Yeah I hate it. I know most of them probably don't mean it to be, but it comes off as racist to me every time (when it's coming from a white pfp)
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 76d
Wait 'til you hear that you're "supposed to" pronounce the H in "who," "what," "when," "where," "why," and "which."
Gork@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 78d
I don't often eat from elevated positions with scenic views, so it isn't surprising to see a proposal happen.
over_clox@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 77d
I've seen this dude somewhere before...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFhMcL3Kf1c
(Skip 30 seconds in...)
lobut@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 77d
Oh, I was gonna say he looked like The Primeagen but this guy has the hair for sure.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 76d
I hope he can find solace in the fact that he looks like Andy Samberg with a mustache