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[frodo_naatulien]

SQUEEEEEEE! *ahem* I mean... SQUEEEEEEE!

It's here. It's finally here. : D

Special SPECIAL thanks to you lyrastar77 for finding the time to beta for me, despite the tremendous stress you've been under. Sweeter than sweet you are - and a true friend to cherish. Mmmmwahhhh!

Watchin’ and Wonderin’

Author: Frodo_naatulien
Pairing: F/S
Rating: PG-13

Comments

Re: Just gonna say a few words ..

[frodo_naatulien]

Hi Lyra : )

Ok, about this gonna thing. My god, can you believe this is still such a damn dilemma for me?!

Here is what I've decided! I presented this question to another very reputable writer in the fandom, who I won't mention, but this is what she said on the matter:

If you're doing movie-verse, I think 'gonna' is fine and would fit with Sam's dialect. If you're doing book, I would actually go with 'going to' because, though Sam DOES have a different sort of grammar in the book, it's hardly ever the abbreviated speech of the movies. Sam of the books would say neither 'gonna' or 'goin' to' - he'd say 'going to'. But I can definitely 'hear' Sam of the movies saying 'gonna' so if movie-verse is what you're doing, I say go with whichever makes YOU feel better.

So 'movie-verse' it will be. I've tried to replace all my gonna's with going to and goin' to and, after reading it over and over and over, it just doesn't work for me - at all. And, you're right. He's my Sam and he's just gonna have to say gonna ; ) At least in this next story. Although, I DID take out the one gonna that was in this story and now have it down to only, I think, four gonna's in the second story, but that's the best I could do. And it works fine really. I think I'm worrying about it much more than anyone else will.

However, in the future, I think I will try to use going to and avoid this entire confusion and frustration that this dadgum word causes me and my Sam. ; )

*hugs hugs* And thanks so much for all your help and input. : D

Re: Just gonna say a few words ..

[lyrastar77]

I'm sure it doesn't have to cause a problem! I mean, it's not as if you're trying to decide which word to use for certain (ahem ..) body parts or anything. There's much more room for heated debate on that one, don't you think! ;-) And I'm sure that the best advice is just to go with what feels right to you. Incidentally, I'm wondering if you know about Accent Rationale -- Andrew Jack worked as a dialect coach on the LOTR trilogy, and he describes how they developed the various accents for the movies here:

http://www.andrewjack.com/projlotrar.htm

and here (where you may see a pic of Frolijah which you've never seen before!):

http://www.andrewjack.com/projlotr.htm

They say that Sam's accent was based on the English Gloucestershire accent (which ties in with what Sean told me), so I could always just nip down the road to Gloucestershire and ask a farmer what he's "gonna" do today & see what he says! ;-)

~Lyra

Re: Just gonna say a few words ..

[frodo_naatulien]

I'm sure it doesn't have to cause a problem! I mean, it's not as if you're trying to decide which word to use for certain (ahem ..) body parts or anything.

Oh, yes, now THAT would be a problem! *snicker*

Lyra, you 're so kind. As a matter fact, yes, I have seen Accent Rationale and that cute Frolijah pic.

They say that Sam's accent was based on the English Gloucestershire accent (which ties in with what Sean told me), so I could always just nip down the road to Gloucestershire and ask a farmer what he's "gonna" do today & see what he says! ;-)

LOL! I love it! Yes, please. Go ask that farmer what he's gonna do today. : D