Re: proper
ciara porter wrote:hey - most of my friends say i don't speak proper english - can i ask does this make sense!!
"you don't be there, sure you don't "-
this should mean - you're never there/not there etc
comments welcome.
thank you
o and this is my 1st post
It's not Standard English, Ciara, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't mean what you say it means, if you happen to speak a different dialect of English.
Actually, in Standard English, the auxiliary verbs "do/does/don't/doesn't" carry a meaning of the routine, the habitual, what's always or generally the case, so I don't see the meaning as that hard to grasp, in context. But the test is whether this is Standard English or a different dialect.
If you do speak a dialect of English other than standard English, then the only way to determine what's proper are the correctness conditions for your own dialect. None of us here would be able to tell you what those correctness conditions are for your own dialect.