I'm going to the bar The progression from i'm gonna to imma involves two. Anyone else coming? count me in! i believe the expression may originate from gambling, possibly poker, or some other card game where players are dealt a hand and then decide whether they are playing on by saying that they are either in or out
Бывшие рестораны McDonald’s в Казахстане переименовали в I'm
The meaning of the prefixes is the same (negation the adverb), but they are still different prefixes.
The phrase who's in? does exist in very informal english, at least in american english
It is equivalent to saying who wants to participate in x with me? it is not used very often, at least in my experience However, people will understand what it means if you say it in conversation For example, if you wanted to get food I'm feeling hungry, so i'm going to order pizza
I am from india and not a native english speaker I do often hear people introducing themselves like hello everyone This is james is it an acceptable form in native english However, while helping my wife with her uni work i came across an interesting one
Is it common to say i'm game in place of i'm in or count me in
Is it used often in american english? I am on it in your first example sounds like a shortened version of i’m on the case, a colloquial way of saying that the speaker is dealing with it In the context of some kind of dispute, as in your second example, they’re at it again means that they have started doing again whatever it was that was a component in the dispute. In 2010, linguist neal whitman wrote it's the prime time for imma commenting on its use in pop lyrics
In fact, this imma (also spelled i'ma, i'mma, ima, and i'm a) is not the contraction i'm followed by a, but a contraction of i'm gonna — which, of course, is a contraction of i'm going to, which is itself a contraction of i am going to
