• AugustWest@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      That’s a fair question. My most honest answer isn’t a very good one: I can’t stand it.

      Linguistically, I don’t get it. “Fixing to” doesn’t seem to offer any benefit over “about to” or “going to” and as far as I can tell it doesn’t have any logical meaning at all.