the-real-seebs:

One of the things I learned from tumblr that I wasn’t aware of is that the AAVE use of “be” isn’t a grammatical error, but a modifier; it’s called “habitual be”, and communicates not necessarily that a thing is happening right now, but that it typically happens. So, “he be lyin’” doesn’t mean “right now, he is lying”, but “usually/habitually, he is lying”.

We also have the conventional present-tense (“he is lying”), which means that, right now, the thing is happening.

What I only recently realized is, English does have a marker for both together – we have a way to indicate both that the speaker is doing a thing right now, and that they do it habitually.

You prefix a first-person declaration of action with “I would never”.