A nine year old just let me know that wanna is a real word

[malaise]

I was having a Zoom class with a grand nephew and told him he should have written want to and not wanna. He was adamant that it was a real word. He was correct. It's nice when they beat us - he was sooooooooooooooo happy. Damn I'm old.
Language does evolve.

[Cirque du So-What]

1. It's more real than 'supposably'

[malaise]

3. Ha - that's one too

[Croney]

2. Gotta, wanna, gonna. All of them. I'm shocked.

Oh well. Whatcha gonna do.

[malaise]

4. Start using them

[Arkansas Granny]

5. Gotta go with the flow.

[True Blue American]

7. I spent years trying to get rid

Of the Southern got in my speech! Now I can use gotta?

[True Blue American]

6. With all the changes, never argue with a 9

Year old. Texting is a classic example. I hate it!

[malaise]

8. I don't text

but before I retired I did notice how much it influenced writing.
A friend sent me a link the other day asking why queue isn't just q - I had no answer - cue old age

[True Blue American]

11. I do only when I have to!

I do enjoy getting phone calls on my IPad. Only one person can do that. Calling is easier.

[malaise]

14. I also love Face TIme, Zoom and Google meeting

on either the iPhone or the iPad. I avoided most of the technology until my brother decided to treat me for Christmas 2019 - that boy is prescient because I sure found them helpful during this Covid moment.

[True Blue American]

12. LOL!

[Loki Liesmith]

9. It's an optative prefix

Attached to verbs to express hoped-for outcomes

[malaise]

10. I learn something new on DU

every day - never heard that word before

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. I have a writer friend who always uses

"prolly" for "probably", as in that's what his characters say in dialogue. Makes me utterly crazy, and I've told him he absolutely overuses that nonstandard word. Plus, it's the only nonstandard word any of his characters say.