Bit curious as to if that charactar is going to render correctly; it's the upside-down e, ə.
And "fəna" is common enough in Black Vernacular English, at least the variety spoken in Chicago. Excuse me, mother fucking, trigger-happy homicide capital of the US, Chitown.
Not something to be proud of, true, but since the Cubs choked. . .
Any road up, what I'm fəna do is use Wishlist.com to try to guilt loot out of readers. They have a JavaScript link you can add to your toolbar which (supposedly) allows you to add items to your wishlist from anywhere, but I'm skeptical. Or just using Debian GNU/Linux and Firebird.
So, this is my wishlist. And I'm quite serious about the big, pink Hello, Kitty television. It would brighten up the living room considerably, I'm thinking.
Wishlist.com found poking around the Sanrio site, because what else would I be doing early Saturday morning?
Blah. Weird UNICODE encoding on the character, it appears. Live and learn. . .
Update II: The New Batch -- did a Copy & Paste of the character from Karsh's comment, since the encoding just weren't working in most browsers/character sets.
Update III: The Search for Rawk -- No, idiot me left the pound/hash symbol out of the encoded bit, because I am a tool. Maybe I should go back to the Mountain Dew. . .
I love this new layout. It freaking rocks, aaron!
Does this show up? I'm fəna try it and see.
i remember people in my "lower education" [4-12] days in b-town using this richly expressive turn of phrase, and being quite fascinated by it. later research by yours cracka-assly uncovered evidence of a possible etymological link to "fixin' to", which is i believe southern vernacular for "going to" [do something], e.g. the old blues chestnut "fixin' to die".
thank you for providing the proper phonetic spelling for this. with your permission i will begin compiling a desk reference for future use. all citations will be fully credited of course.
Dru, all credit to Michelle and the Blog Body Shop, but thanks.
Karsh, how'd you do dat? I just ripped the character off from your post in the edit. . .
r@d@r, that's about what I managed to come up with as to the origins of the word too. There's lots of icky race/class stuff mixed in, which either fascinates or disgusts me, depending on my mood. Bougie Negroes like me aren't supposed to use it, for example.
Wait, that's right, I'm unemployed, hence not Bougie.
But I'm fəna start a new temp assignment next Monday, Lord willing and the creek don't rise. . .
I always heard "fixna do" as a kid, though never ever from white folks, always lower class black folks. I assume the nifty spelling you cited is the same thing with a slight change for the non-down-south-by-way-of-NYC accent.
And isn't there always icky race/class stuff mixed in?