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How is it spelled?

I'ma
Ima
Imma
I am going to

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Zandrax

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English help here people
« on: December 31, 2010, 10:15:20 AM »
"______ ninja kick you into next week."

What is the accepted spelling of this?

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Re: English help here people
« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2010, 10:27:30 AM »
The Black Eyed Peas spell it "Imma".

I prefer "I'm gonna". ;)

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Re: English help here people
« Reply #2 on: December 31, 2010, 10:33:04 AM »
The Black Eyed Peas spell it "Imma".

compelling evidence that "Imma" is definitely wrong.
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Re: English help here people
« Reply #3 on: December 31, 2010, 10:39:59 AM »
I couldn't agree more.

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Re: English help here people
« Reply #4 on: December 31, 2010, 10:40:43 AM »
"Imma" given two M's would phonetically sound like "Imm uh" would it not?

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Re: English help here people
« Reply #5 on: December 31, 2010, 10:48:31 AM »
Depends on how they make the word, I guess.

The word "inept" basically sounds how it looks, yet "wine" has a distinct "I" (or "eye") sound. So, the letter combination "in" can have multiple sounds. Could be the same with any word.

English is fucked. So many words used with the same spelling but with multiple sounds and meanings.

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Re: English help here people
« Reply #6 on: December 31, 2010, 10:59:50 AM »
Like how "ghoti" can spell "fish"

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Re: English help here people
« Reply #7 on: December 31, 2010, 11:54:05 AM »
eye-muh