• casmael
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    6 months ago

    What in tarnation does finna mean (I’m old)

    • Baby Shoggoth [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      6 months ago

      basically “gonna”. comes from aave, originating from the southern phrase “fixing to”, via lineage of roughly “fixing to” -> “fixin ta” -> “f’in ta” -> “finna”