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[-] AugustWest@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

That’s a fair question. My most honest answer isn’t a very good one: I can’t stand it.

Linguistically, I don’t get it. “Fixing to” doesn’t seem to offer any benefit over “about to” or “going to” and as far as I can tell it doesn’t have any logical meaning at all.

[-] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

So, just for clarification, you're ok with "boutta"?

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

but that's not how language works. if you're gonna dissect parts of phrases like this, "about to" makes even less sense.

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