This was said to me last night by one of our nurse aides. She has a solid history of employing some extremely colorful and unique syntax and sentence constructions. I believe she meant something to the effect of "They have already torn that up," or, possibly, with a flash of dyslexia, "That toe has been done up by them." I don't really know. I wish you could all hear her speak. It is mind-bending.
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2 comments:
Either way the sentence could be interpreted, what bothers me more is the dangling preposition. I would not mind the sentence near as much if it would have been "They be done toe up dat." Truth be told, "toe" is probably incorrect. It's probably "to'."
Yes but I was afraid people would read it as "too dat up," which takes the ridiculousness of the sentence to new heights.
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