there is no such word as "wanna" For everybody who wants to learn English. the word " wanna" is a slang term and poor English. you should say "I want to learn English". regards, matt.

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there is no such word as "wanna"

For everybody who wants to learn English. the word " wanna" is a slang term and poor English. you should say "I want to learn English". regards, matt.

13 июня 2019 г., 10:58

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Don't ever be too dogmatic when talking about good or bad English. Although I hate it, and it makes me want to scream "the dictionary is wrong," the fact is that "wanna" is listed as a word in:

<a href="https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=wanna" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">the American Heritage dictionary</a>

Informal

1. Contraction of want to: You wanna go now?

2. Contraction of want a: You wanna slice of pie?

<a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wanna" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Merriam-Webster</a>:

—used for "want to" in informal speech and in representations of such speech''

and <a href="https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/wanna" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Oxford</a>:

informal

Want to; want a.

‘you wanna know how low I've stooped?’

‘I wanna guitar’

Worse yet, I have to say that they all are probably right, because wanna has been used in print, in song titles and song lyrics, at least since 1928, the year of the hit song "I Wanna Be Loved By You."

So, I am very sorry, truly, but "wanna" is an informal but legitimate English word. It's as shocking to me as it was in the 1960s when a dictionary first included the word "ain't," but it is a word.

The monumental Oxford English Dictionary established in the 1800s that English dictionaries are based on "historical principles." They record the language as it is actually used, not as English teachers might wish it to be used. If English speakers say something often enough and long enough, it becomes a recognized word.

I can give many reasons why people who are learning English should not try to use "wanna" themselves, but that's a different topic.

13 июня 2019 г.

:| 😂
even in farsi young people made this kind of abbreviation(if I'm not mistaking that's how you call it?!)
Like exam in farsi is emtehan
But it's enough to say emt
Or
I dont know =Nemidunam
Ok to say nemd
Or many other things
So I know it's poor English like how it is in Farsi or Arabic
But it's more fun to say wanna ,kinda,gotta, or emt ,nemd

13 июня 2019 г.

Dan is definitely correct.

A search for the definition of the word "word" shows something equivalent to; "a written or printed character or combination of characters representing a spoken word".

The word wanna (and others such as gonna, etc.) simply show the manner in which the sound is replicated and represented.
However, it is not appropriate to write the word gonna, et al, unless the writer is trying to replicate the sound of the quickly spoken "going to".

So, instead of writing gonna, we should write "going to".

13 июня 2019 г.