Talk:fixing
In our area of Central Florida, Fixing, is pronounced fixn' and it's meaning is roughly "DOing". In other words "I'm fixn' ta go." should translate to "I am leaving now", NOT, "I am preparing to leave". Javahead001 (talk) 16:17, 18 May 2012 (UTC)Roger Johnson
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In my opinion, the "going to, about to" sense which is currently housed in fixing should be moved to fixing to like this. As far as I can tell, the to is as integral to this term as it is to going to and about to, as demonstrated by citations like this, and by the fact that the alternative forms (finna, fina, fixna, fitna, etc) include it. Indeed, the fact that the alt forms include the to makes it awkward to list them in fixing. - -sche (discuss) 20:01, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
- Why not have intelligible entries at both locations? I think we often do in comparable situations. DCDuring TALK 21:59, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
- Do we do that in comparable situations? Go’s sense 31.1 is related to (and links to) (be) going to, but it exists where it is because it's also used without be and in other tenses besides the present participle ("I didn't go to do that, but it happened", "she went to pick it up"). On the other hand, I notice sense three of about... and in fact, if that sense is attested without to, I wonder why we have a separate entry for about to...
- Would it make sense to provide a definition (as is there now) and then put
{{only used in}}after the definition? That would seem a bit unusual, but then again, I've seen people do similar things with{{&lit}}. And actually, it probably only seems unusual to me because I mostly see{{only used in}}in entries that have no other senses; in places like this were there are other senses, I guess it would make sense... - - -sche (discuss) 22:31, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
- Resolved IMO, in the manner I suggested: I left the definition at fixing but put
{{only used in}}after it with a link to fixing to. It seems appropriate to include the sense (and not just bare "{{only used in}}") in fixing because that term has other senses. - -sche (discuss) 19:05, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
- Resolved IMO, in the manner I suggested: I left the definition at fixing but put