GONNA

English translation: going to

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English term or phrase:	GONNA
Selected answer:	going to
Entered by:	jerrie

17:51 Jan 8, 2003

English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary

English term or phrase: GONNA

gonna

JOSE

going to

Explanation:
I'm gonna...

Or you're a gonna (goner)...you're dead, out of here

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Jennifer Lopez featuring Nas - I\'m Gonna Be Alright
(I\'m going to be alright)

I\'m Gonna Getcha Good: Shania Twain.
(I\'m going to get you good)

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\'gonna\' is listed in my 1983 Chambers dictionary....

(esp USA) a coll. contraction of going to

...so, it\'s been around for a while, and being used more!

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jerrie
United Kingdom
Local time: 03:58

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SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED

4 +19

going to

jerrie

4 +5

going to

Nancy Arrowsmith

5 +4

Gonna is a perfect spelling for the sound of "going to" as

Herman Vilella

5 +4

A colloq. (esp. U.S;) or vulgar pronunciation of "going to"

Christopher Crockett

5 +2

Note to Christopher

Chris Rowson (X)

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1 min confidence:

peer agreement (net): +19

going to

jerrie
United Kingdom
Local time: 03:58
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in pair: 773

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agree

Marion Burns

0 min

-> Thanks

agree

Maria Rosich Andreu

0 min

-> Thanks

neutral

Christopher Crockett: "going to" yes, but goner?

5 mins

-> OK, forget the 'goner' :-)

agree

Nikita Kobrin

5 mins

-> Thanks

agree

Alaa Zeineldine

10 mins

-> Thanks

agree

NancyLynn

12 mins

agree

EDLING (X)

18 mins

agree

Yelena.

20 mins

agree

Enza Longo

24 mins

agree

Sarah Ponting

27 mins

agree

cillegio

29 mins

agree

Emilia Carneiro

1 hr

agree

Drak

1 hr

agree

Refugio: The goner is a goner. Going to.

1 hr

-> Thanks!!!

agree

Claudia Andreani

1 hr

agree

Jack Doughty: And a much older song, from South Pacific: "I'm gonna wash that man right outa my hair!"

1 hr

-> Thanks Jack. I was only singing that the other day! Really!!

agree

Alexandra Tussing

1 day 10 hrs

agree

Dolly Xu

2 days 11 hrs

agree

airmailrpl

5 days

agree

kaalema: definite going to, never hear goner!

15 days

2 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +5

going to

Explanation:
a colloquial, shortened form, usually considered very ungrammatical, but used in direct speech.
I'm gonna go get you
I'm gonna go out and get me some booze, etc.

Nancy Arrowsmith
Local time: 20:58
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in pair: 60

8 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

Gonna is a perfect spelling for the sound of "going to" as

Explanation:
pronounced by very, very large numbers of Americans with no ulterior motive. It's not foul language. I don't use it very much because I'm always in class, interpreting languages, or trying to impress drunks at the corner bar. But I've had occasion to use it many times, especially when trying to sound funny-angry, such as in "if the waiter does that again, I'm gonna hang'im!"

Herman Vilella
Local time: 04:58
Native speaker of:

English,

Spanish
PRO pts in pair: 14

10 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

A colloq. (esp. U.S;) or vulgar pronunciation of "going to"

Explanation:
--gonna go(hook).n<e>, colloq. (esp. U.S;) or vulgar pronunciation of going to (see go v. 47 b). Cf. the earlier Sc. ganna, gaunna: see Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. Go, quots. 1806, etc.

1913 C. E. Mulford Coming of Cassidy ix. 149 Yo're gonna get a good lickin'.

1929 E. W. Springs Above Bright Blue Sky 136, 5684 has a busted cylinder. Gonna put a new motor in it.

1952 A. Baron With Hope, Farewell 56 Put 'em all in clover, that's what I'm gonna do.

1967 M. Shulman Kill 3 ii. iv. 81 I'm gonna keep on yelling tell you let me out.

--going to (with active or pass. inf.): on the way to, preparing or tending to. Now used as a more colloquial synonym of about to, in the auxiliaries of idiomatic compound tenses expressing immediate or near futurity.

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I don\'t know what to call this sort of word, but perhaps someone has an idea --it\'s not just a colloquialism, it\'s a matter of orthography more closely immitating speech, like \"squeet\" for \"let\'s go eat,\" or Woody Allen\'s famous \"No, dju?\" for \"No, JEW.\"

A phonologism ??

No, that can\'t be right, since it\'s not in the OED.

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Ain\'t anybody gonna help me out here?

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Note to Chris :

\"...modern, colloquial spoken grammar. Grammar can only describe what people say and write, it has never succeeded in prescribing.\"

Nutz.

\"GRAMMAR : That department of the study of a language which deals with its inflexional forms or other means of indicating the relations of words in the sentence, and with the rules for employing these...\"

Otherwise All Things are Lawful, and down that road there be Dragons, Chris.

Just because Duhbya sez it doan\'t make it grammer.

Much less true.

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Snobby or not, here\'s the OED on \"goner\" :

GONE : Those who are dead.

1908 Daily Chron. 13 May 3/3 Unconscious imitations of Browning and others of the great and the gone.

1914 Hardy Satires of Circumstance 52 The speakers, sundry phantoms of the gone.

--Hence \'goner slang, one who is dead or undone; something which is doomed or ended.

1850 Dow, Jr. in Sunday Mercury (N.Y.) 6 Jan. 2/6 Last Monday..the old year was not quite a goner.

1854 M. J. Holmes Tempest & Sunshine v. 211 I\'d soon give you up as a goner.

1857 Thoreau Maine W. (1894) 365 He exclaimed, `She is a goner!\'..There, to be sure, she lay perfectly dead.

1891 Nat. Gould Double Event 261 Make a noise, or follow me, and you\'re a goner.

1930 E. Bramah Little Flutter xiii. 153 If it failed he was-if one may be permitted the word in the excitement of the moment-a `goner\'.

1933 Boys\' Mag. XLVII. 124/2 When I found the car burnt out I thought you were a `goner\'.

1945 Auden For Time Being 12 Rome will be a goner.

Of course, since there are no rules that we have to follow, we can just say and do any damned thing we want and to hell with it.

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Then, of course, there\'s \"goinna\" (pronounced \"gwanna\"), a regional variant of \"gonna\" from the Southern U.S.

As in Bro\' Bear\'s famous line : \"I gwanna...nock...yo haid...clean...OFF !\" [from Disney\'s \"Song of the South,\" adaptations of Joel Chandler Harris\' stories.]

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Note added at 2003-01-08 18:45:47 (GMT)
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Sorry, should be \"...yo...haid...\"

Christopher Crockett
Local time: 22:58
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in pair: 128

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

Note to Christopher

Explanation:
(Sorry Jose, your question stokes old fires :-)

I see you use "don´t" (I know your "ain´t" is ironic). "Gonna" is a component of an irregular future of "to go". In another few decades it will be as accepted as “don´t”. I agree that just because Shrub says it, that don´t make it grammer, but how about if 50 million people say it a thousand times a year?

I am delighted to see that you are just as creative in your use of language as I like to be in music – the “dragons” are a lovely image, if intended to be monitory, and “phonologism” is really great!

Chris Rowson (X)
Local time: 04:58
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in pair: 243

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

Christopher Crockett: O.k., so "phonologism" is "great"--that still means that we'll have to get 49,999,998 more people who use it 1,000 times a year before it gets into the OED(It's already in the Random House & Am.Heri., I presume.) & please doant refer to Duhbya as "shrub."

18 hrs

-> OK, I woant

agree

Nikita Kobrin: As a student I was very fond of AmEn and my teachers at the university simply hated all my gonna's and wanna's. They used to tell me: "We teach you English not American!".

2 days 18 hrs

-> I went an old-style English school, and learnt old-style English, along with the Latin and Greek. It was only later that I discovered the delights of American English, and of using language creatively myself.

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