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I mean it's as made up as any other slang
why do i never hear someone bitch about "gonna" then
You're not old enough. Teachers bitched about 'gonna' when I was a kid, it's old hat now.
you got me there; i was born a century too late in the 1900s.
"All slang is made up" and "a lot of people are racist (or at the very least ignorant)" are not mutually exclusive statements. Finna is equally as "made up" as gonna or even skibbity.
i know but my point is that this is pointless pedantry.
True, I just suppose I feel saying a word is or isn't made up doesn't really mean anything, versus saying a word is actually actively used and understood by a group of people.
Because "gonna" is centuries old, while "finna" only started getting popular around 2010.
Not exactly an apples to apples comparison, 'younger' slang is always going to be less 'familiar'/'normal'-sounding.