On 2013-11-05, David Woolley <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 04/11/13 23:26, Nomen Nescio wrote: > > > > It will display server list while Javed wanna client list. > > Please unlearn "wanna". It is not an English word. It is possibly even > more demanding than the "want to" or which it is a slang contraction. > Moreover, "want to" is often avoided as being too demanding to be > polite. Here it would also need to be conjugated to "wannas".
While it certainly is slang, here is is probably a contraction of "wants a" not "wants to" The latter deamands a verb which makes no grammatical sense here, while the former demands a noun, which it gets here. "polly wanna cracker?" would mean "Polly wants a cracker?" , while "Polly wanna sing?" means "Polly wants to sing?" "wanna" is often used in speach, rarely in written English. > > In this case, "wants" would have been suitable. "want to" from which > "wanna" is derived, would be grammatically wrong. Nope "wants" would not have been suitable in English. "Wants a" would be. > > This is something you must have learned; it's not a natural mistake for > a non-native speaker. As with many colloquialisms. And they can be learned by non-native speakers. Nothing is "natural" for a non-native speaker. > _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
