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• Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh. That’s a new one for me.

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  • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Short for fixing to, which now that I type it out, it makes less sense than finna

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    • somethingsnappy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You nailed it. Short moment in time that anyone would agree though.

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  • aMockTie@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For further clarity, it's a shortening of "fitting to" just like how "gonna" is a shortening of "going to." As BremboTheFourth said, the two are synonymous.

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    • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      While you’re on the right track, it’s fixing to, which to be honest doesn’t make any sense

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      • Hazor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Wiktionary suggests both “fixing to” and “fitting to” are used synonymously. Fwiw, in Tennessee, I only ever hear “fixing to”. As someone who learned English outside of the southern US, it makes little sense to me also. But what makes even less sense to me is people saying “trying to” to mean “want to”.

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• Whostosay@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah finna boutta

  I was honestly so confused before I saw your reply to theirs, I live in the south so that’s just common lingo here

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  • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I get my American slang through Hollywood and Internet, so the curriculum may not be entirely comprehensive at times.

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