I have a friend in COLLEGE and she thinks 'gonna' is a word and it blew her mind that it was colloquial (yeah I had to explain what that meant) for "going to" and that she should not use the word "gonna" in her descriptive essay (and, no, she was not using the word as part of a dialog)
2007-02-09 13:41:26 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Fuznut: wrhiywe, there is that a word? I wrote it and you read it... so it must be!
2007-02-09 13:48:03 · update #1
Fuznut: never mind what I just said above.I misunderstood. I guess you mean that I wrote it knowing the meaning and you read it understanding the meaning which means it is a word. True, but that is why I explained in terms of in the context of a formal descriptive essay. I know it is a colloquial word.
2007-02-09 13:59:36 · update #2
dictionary.com shows it as an informal contraction.
it also has 'shouldna' defined the same way, should we embrace that word and use it in formal writing, too?
2007-02-09 14:03:13 · update #3
Teehee! Gonna is a word that I may say sometimes but I would never put it in a paper for school! What the heck!
2007-02-09 13:55:38 · answer #1 · answered by cutesy76 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is a word otherwise you wouldn;t have written it and I wouldn;t have read it. You perhaps mean that colloquialisms are not to be considered to be proper words. I therfore agree that gonna ia a word, and think it is not wise to use it in a descriptive essay as your friend would.
2007-02-09 21:45:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with Darmintor, much as one might dislike it, "gonna" is a word, albeit a colloquialism, and as such appears in all the major dictionaries.
2007-02-09 21:57:02 · answer #3 · answered by Bethany 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's in the US dictionaries and in the Oxford English Dictionary. Much as you and I don't like it, it's therefore a legitimate word.
Language does change. Someone from 100 years ago would probably be appalled at the way I speak, even though I take pride in speaking 'correctly'.
2007-02-09 21:46:54 · answer #4 · answered by Dharma Nature 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, gonna is colloquial for going to. I do use it myself on occasion, but I know it is not proper English.
2007-02-09 21:45:16 · answer #5 · answered by P K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
gonna is a real word, a contraction for going to.
check dictionary.com
2007-02-09 21:58:49 · answer #6 · answered by xjoizey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gonna isn't a word..and yeah..it means going to and people are just too lazy to say going to so they say gunna. LOL. [:
2007-02-09 21:44:33 · answer #7 · answered by ACTiNGisLiFE 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Show her a dictionary. Maybe she would understand better if you told your friend it was a slang word.
2007-02-09 21:44:50 · answer #8 · answered by ACME 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What about "Wanna", "2U", "izzit", etc
Sometime, I do using them in my essay writing and very often get some "advise" by the lecturer.
2007-02-09 22:29:32 · answer #9 · answered by 4K's 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lots of people. It's short for "going to".
2007-02-09 22:31:14 · answer #10 · answered by Shelb-N-Ator [[H!ATD]] 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋