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I have heard this phrase in "True Detective". What's the background? (It was used by police detective, 2nd episode, the dialog in a car.)

update:

Because of the discussion, I found that scene and have listened it exactly with headphones. The exact phrase (32:46) - "She do not look like"

The meaning of the question remains. Using 3rd person + "do".

Jirka Kopřiva
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  • I've seen all eight episodes and can't recall that sentence. I think I would have remembered. – Robusto Jan 26 '15 at 22:42
  • You are asking us what the background is??? If they truly used this phrase as you call it, you will have to provide background so we can tell you the reason or meaning behind this. flagged as too broad. Equal how: from a grammatical viewpoint this is wrong in so many ways. – AverageGatsby Jan 26 '15 at 22:47
  • It seems like it's just a dialectical variation of She doesn't like (something). – Barmar Jan 26 '15 at 22:52
  • I mean an english background, of course. Btw., while googling I noticed that Justin Bieber uses this sentence in a song. I do not try to find the relationship. Just saying. I repeated the scene to make me believe. – Jirka Kopřiva Jan 26 '15 at 23:00
  • Google finds a total of 24 instances of that text (one of which is this question, obviously). All the rest look like non-native speakers to me. @Barmar: - no way is it a "dialectal variant". Voting to close as "Unclear". – FumbleFingers Jan 27 '15 at 00:35
  • @FumbleFingers I was thinking of dialects like Black English that conjugate differently, like "She don't like". Also "cute" phrases like "Me no likey". – Barmar Jan 27 '15 at 00:40
  • @Barmar: I expect it's just a mishearing, only not so obvious as this one earlier today, so perhaps we need a link to an audio source. Not that this would make it On Topic - just answerable. – FumbleFingers Jan 27 '15 at 00:48
  • It also could just be an individual ideosyncracy. The characters on True Detective were kind of weird. – Barmar Jan 27 '15 at 01:08

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