I just want to say, if I see anyone not using spell check around here, with a misspelling that I can identify at a glance, I'll be taking you to task. Your name is mud around these parts.
Nurses with better spelling than mine, on the other hand, are obviously anal retentive perfectionists. Or else they are using spell check, the great equalizer.
Obvious grammatical errors will be pointed out immediately. And, I expect you educated people to know that:
Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.
Finna means "going to".
I'm finna go to bed.
I'm finna make dinner. Etc.
it looks really weird written out, but it sounds natural enough when spoken.
That is seriously the most bizarre thing I've heard in a long time. Never ever have I heard that. I just asked my husband, and he looked at me as if I have 3 eyes.
FWIW, I'm originally from Minneapolis, but lived most of my adult life in "accent neutral" Arizona and Denver. My husband is from New England, but spent most of his adult life in "accent neutral" areas as well.
Please don't get me stirred up into "Grammar Queen" mode. I notice grammar and spelling errors all the time and rarely make the mistake of correcting the poster, lol.
Recently, I very gently suggested that in the future, a poster might break up what seemed like a 300 word run on post into paragraphs so it would be more readable. The poster flipped out on me. It was in the nurses and recovery forum and the poster even implied that I might cause her to relapse! So I shut up now.
Just call me "see no evil Catmom" lol.
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Your kidding right? Cause her to relapse? Wow, I hope that other posters told she has bigger fish to fry.
I just googled 'finna', and apparently it is indeed a contraction of sorts of the phrase "fixing to" do something.
I was actually born in canada but spent most of my childhood in Detroit. I live in a different part of the state now. Finna was WAY more common in Detroit, but I hear it a lot here, too.
'Whom' is the objective case, 'who' is the subjective case. In other words, one uses 'whom' with it's the object in the sentence, and 'who' when it's the subject of the sentence. Examples:
Who is going to the park with whom? Jill is going to the park with Jack. Jill is the subject in the sentence and Jack is the object in the sentence.
Compare it to 'I' and 'me'. 'I' is the subjective case of the personal pronoun and 'me' is the objective case. Examples:
I am going to the park with Jack. ---'I' in this sentence is the subject of the sentence, Jack is the object.
Jack is going to the park with me. ---Jack is the subject of this sentence and 'me' is the object.
Same with who and whom.
Stop!! Your taking me back to sentence diagrams when I was in school. Lol! BTW, my grown children never learned how to diagram a sentence...might explain the grammar issues we have today. That and the fact that they stopped giving spelling tests after grammar school. Just my .002. They also don't teach cursive any longer either.
I hear "finna" all the time, everyday. Maybe not in professional settings, but in everyday speech, all the time. I'll even admit to using it myself. I know it's totally not a real word, but haven't you ever said/heard "I'm finna go to the store" in causal conversation?
Saying "whom" everyday, never heard of "finna".... did you all go to finishing school in 19th century England or something?
So I shut up now. 
klone, MSN, RN
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That is seriously the most bizarre thing I've heard in a long time. Never ever have I heard that. I just asked my husband, and he looked at me as if I have 3 eyes.
FWIW, I'm originally from Minneapolis, but lived most of my adult life in "accent neutral" Arizona and Denver. My husband is from New England, but spent most of his adult life in "accent neutral" areas as well.