• AugustWest@lemmy.world
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    20 hours 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.

    • pyre@lemmy.world
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      41 minutes ago

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