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• Whostosay@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• aMockTie@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Huh, I’ve never heard anyone say fitting to.

        Trying to make more sense to me, because you haven’t done what you’re attempting, but you are attempting

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