Contractions: gonna, wanna, tryinna

J. Eulenberg eulenbrg at U.WASHINGTON.EDU
Tue Oct 14 17:51:39 UTC 2003


Was the second "Just ain't going to."  drawn out?  In that case, I would
expect that the switch to the full phrase was definitely for emphasis, and
the speaker ought to have been shaking his head at the same time.

Julia Niebuhr Eulenberg <eulenbrg at u.washington.edu>

> >"Ain't gonna happen. Just ain't going to."



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