tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377709913595182916.post577020584190868705..comments2024-03-14T10:31:26.918+00:00Comments on DCblog: On gonnaDChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10192779827863835310noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377709913595182916.post-77975418618947055312011-09-12T00:41:43.618+00:002011-09-12T00:41:43.618+00:00The immediate example that springs to mind is &quo...The immediate example that springs to mind is "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out Of My Hair" from the 1949 musical <i>South Pacific</i> (see <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIAP364nxEo" rel="nofollow">YouTube</a>.<br /><br />Language Log had <a href="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3219" rel="nofollow">examples recently</a> of how "gonna" and similar appears to be an example of diglossia: even though people - even educated speakers - say it, it gets airbrushed out of the record by transcription as "going to".Ray Girvanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05556764642402680159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377709913595182916.post-35761609245610236992010-09-11T14:47:03.385+00:002010-09-11T14:47:03.385+00:00The 1913 use of the spelling was surely also a soc...The 1913 use of the spelling was surely also a social marker. Perhaps what the actors really meant to say is that <i>gonna</i> was socially inappropriate among Madison Avenue executives in the 1960's. A minor shibboleth, but a real one.<br /><br />Even if the historical mad men did say <i>gonna</i>, it may yet be true that they believed that they didn't.David Crosbiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01858358459416955921noreply@blogger.com