"wanna" and "gonna" and all the other awful stuff

[Brefugee]

is it all from AI or is everyone losing the ability to write English?

If people wanna talk like that, what you gonna do?

Sorry. Couldn't resist 🤭

There hardly new words.

It's just people typing as they talk. I don't understand why some people expect everything to be written perfectly at all times. It's Mumsnet, not a bloody essay.

Its actually I was ‘gonnoo’ - not gonna silly!

I give you " has came" or any other similar permutations.

It's not AI. On MN it's been around for several years. I find "wanna" and "gonna" irritating - they make the writer sound dim. I'm not being at all consistent here as other expressions don't bother me. Is it because they're essentially American?

Add in ‘tryna’ ..

I wanna agree with you but I'm afraid I'm gonna have to disagree

I find myself judging people who use, lol. I find it really irritating, especially when used in a debate.

My new pet hate

I don’t mind Americans doing it, but many brits don’t pronounce the words like this, so why write them?

Im English and absolutely say gonna and wanna in every day speech

I'm guessing you'll see a lot more of it because people are dictating their posts

So you'd have to make an effort to say want to and if you say wanna in speech, that's how it will come out in a post.

It makes posts far more difficult to read when they’re not in standard English.

I click away when it’s the OP, but it does annoy me!

Fair enough. I don’t but obviously some brits do.

Well you shoulda known better.

Nowhere near as irritating as the number of people who do not know the difference between the past tense and the past participle of sing, drink, sink, etc. Seems to be becoming the norm to use the past participle for everything, e g. "It sunk", "we drunk", etc.

Your thread title made me think of, "Shoulda, woulda, coulda".

Prolly a post for pedants corner but I’ll raise you a “gotten” 🤷🏼‍♀️

Says the person who didn't capitalise the first letter of their sentence. Honestly, have you just spent so much time online you've forgotten how to write English?

Gotten doesn't count. It's old English. Good enough for Shakespeare and all that

Wanna, gonna, shoulda are the new guys on the block.

Saw that horror for the first time just the other day.
OP, I’d add ‘kinda’ and ‘sorta’.
Of course I don’t judge people who write these abominations, do I?
(Take a guess…)

And “prolly”?

thank you .... prolly is stupid

Deffo