Timeline for Meaning of the slang "a"? [duplicate]
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| Feb 27, 2016 at 1:00 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Colin: Sorry - I can see now that was a bit confusing. The earlier link (under your answer) was to T.E.D.'s answer on the question I closevoted against. But that answer has only 7 votes (20 for Hugo's, which imho utterly fails to address the issue of the "interpolated" a indicating "first person future immediate"). This kind of stuff is really beyond my paygrade as an armchair dilettante linguist, but it seems to me there is an interpolated a which does have a bearing both here and on that Q. I'mma go now often reduces I'm a- gonna go, I think, not just I'm gonna go. | |
| Feb 26, 2016 at 23:41 | comment | added | Colin Fine | @FumbleFingers: yes, you're right, it is. Are you sure that that is the same question that you said it was a duplicate of when I made my comment? I don't remember it looking like that. | |
| Feb 26, 2016 at 15:45 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Colin: I'm a cut you off right there. It's exactly the same syntax - TO BE + a + infinitive verb, signifying [will] verb immediately. | |
| Feb 26, 2016 at 13:38 | comment | added | Colin Fine | I disagree that it is a duplicate. The syntax is different. | |
| Feb 26, 2016 at 12:47 | history | closed | FumbleFingers meaning Users with the meaning badge or a synonym can single-handedly close meaning questions as duplicates and reopen them as needed. | Duplicate of What exactly is "I'mma?" | |
| Feb 26, 2016 at 12:14 | answer | added | Colin Fine | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 26, 2016 at 11:47 | answer | added | WS2 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 26, 2016 at 10:53 | history | asked | Amit Verma | CC BY-SA 3.0 |