Usage of wanna

[Daemon99]

I know people use wanna to mean want to.

Eg: Wanna have a drink (= Do you want to have a drink?)

Can we also use it like in the following sentence?

Wanna ice-cream? (= Do you want an ice-cream?)
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[Yankee]

Interesting question, Daemon.

Personally, I think I'd add at least a slight N sound to the end of 'wanna' in a situation like that: 'Wannan ice cream cone?'

[Prezbucky]

One could also want a nice cream cone.

hehe

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[Molly]

[Haihao]

[Lost_Soul]

[Molly]

Is "wanna" becoming a semi-modal auxiliary here?

That's a bad cut. You wanna get that seen to.

He'll wanna eat when he gets here, I'm sure.

[Molly]

Here's a useful wanna link.

http://www.princeton.edu/~browning/wanna.html

[Daemon99]

[Jamie (K)]

[Lost_Soul]

Just remembered a corny joke:

This twine walks into a bar and orders a drink, the bartender replies: "haven't you sees the sign outside above the door? We dont serve twines, get out!"
The twine walks out, looking despondent, then at the corner he suddenly twists around a few times, ties himself in a knot and walks back into the bar, comes up to the counder and orders a drink.
The bartender, angrily "Aren't you that same twine that I turned out a moment ago?"
To which the twine replies: "I'm afraid not"

[Jamie (K)]

Alex, what's the punch line?

[Jamie (K)]

Oh, now I get it. "I'm a frayed knot." There's no indiction earlier in the joke that the knot gets frayed, so it's confusing.

[Lost_Soul]

[Molly]