Why do southern people say "I'm a fixin to do somthing" WTF

im about 2

in the bay area people say "i'm finna do something..."

I'm fixin to get my sig in this thread ....

And i've been wondering the same thing for some time now ...??

ya better get that done before supper

You boys need to take a trip down south to understand southern twang

Or....just watch the Jeff Foxworthy show and that'll teach ya' all you need to know.

From http://www.phrases.org.uk

Question: I have always wondered what other words these slang terms came from.

Reply 1:
: "I reckon" isn't slang. It means something similar to "I calculate". It implies that the person saying it has made some sort of reckoning to draw his conclusions. It probably sounds like slang because it isn't used much in modern American English except in old Westerns and on reruns of The Beverly Hillbillys.

: "I'm fixin' to do it", I believe, comes from Texas. But seriously I am guessing the "fixing part comes from the idea of fixing something in your gaze or your gun sight.


Reply 2:
I reckon those words are standard English in the mountains and I am fixin' to tell you what they mean:

Fixin' - Intending. "I'm fixin' to go there next week."
Reckon - Guess, believe, suppose. "I reckon it doesn't make any difference."
Reckon how -- Wonder. "I reckon how tall he is?"

From "Mountain Range: A Dictionary of Expressions from Appalachia to the Ozarks" by Robert Hendrickson (Volume IV, Facts on File Dictionary of American Regional Expressions, Facts on File, New York, N.Y.,1997).

that means you are gonna get capped.

Your post was great, but I'm high and reading it over and over is hilarious, thanks for posting!

lol, i will type it here and there, but yea its a silly saying.

another good one: cut it half in two.

because they have not taken "English 1A" in college yet

They're fixing to fix their school teachin' and stuff, but first they gotta get rid of that whole evolution bullshit!