Nerd Words of the Day: Imma Let You Finish
“Imma let you finish”: Phrase used to interrupt someone with no intent of letting them finish what they were going to say.
This phrase entered the lexicon recently with the MTV Music Awards and Kanye uttering the phrase as he interrupted Taylor Swift during her acceptance speech.
I had to do this phrase after Bo Burnham uttered the following statement on his Twitter tonight: @boburnham “balloon boy, imma let you finish, but the gosselin kids had two of the worst parents of all time!”
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Не могли бы вы сделать смысле [copasetic]
♥ alana
Simply illogical!
lots of lazy English around…
Не могли бы вы сделать смысле [copasetic]
♥ alana
ok…..
Wow! This seems like a low number of comments. Maybe we’re to afraid to address what used to be called Black English when I was young. Maybe now it’s called rap speak or something like that. Slang definitely has a place in word origin but as we also learned it can take many years for that word to be accepted. Just because a pop star mumbles a rude comment does not justify its acceptance as a “real” word. I would never demand Kanye talk a certain way but in the spotlight he proved himself.
What was it he proved again
oh, you got it
typo correction: interrupted, Kanye.
To me he “proved” he had poor communication skills and manners. I’m taking it for granted that “imma” is short for “I’m gonna” which is short for the proper “I am going to let you finish”. If he had no intention of letting her finish then I guess he’s just rude and the slang fits him well. Spell Check doesn’t acknowledge “imma” either!
I agree, dat stupid Imma ain’t neva finna come outta oua filfy mouf
“Rap speak” as you call it is called “Ebonics”. I’d know…I’m black.
I do know that word and I should have used it. Thanks.
[Ebonics]
Marina good to hear from you! Imma let you finish sounds like a bunch of mumbo jumbo
What is this send to twitter next to add comment button 
You can twitter your reply as well.. in other words it goes to twitter as well as here.
Thank you so very much for your reply Marina
It’s kind of like allowing “ooga booga” into my vocabulary.
BOT ETO DA
Wadda ya mean let me finish…
imma not finish wachin the wideo yet.
They are getting a lot of mileage out of that video
She is so Hott
WOWOWOW!!
Let the women finish! DO NOT interrupt them!
Kapitänsleutnants talk too much though. These ones can be interrupted no problemo.
Yo Obama I’mma let u finish but, ARAFAT had one of the best meaningless nobel peace prizes of all time.
not done…
…he is a [JacKaSS]; said the American President 
anagain!!!*
cool
Marina gives us GOeRGE in lexicon thingy…The Cramps – Hot Pearl ***[Snatch]***[][snatch][]the transducer 
…good one dar hotforwords LaDy 
PS…do you get [lint] 
how about chicken bones in my nose? 