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Park sang joon Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

I'm gone

A: Did you talk to Miranda? She may know something.
B: I'm gone.

I think "I'm gone" indicates the complete condition.
So I'd like to know why "I'm gone" is used, not "I am going/ I will go."
Thank you in advance for your help.
  

Top answer

It's a slang-y way of saying I will go immediately . I don''t hear it said very much.

— Clive

  • It's a slang-y way of saying I will go immediately .
  • I don''t hear it said very much.
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It's a slang-y way of saying I will go immediately.
I don''t hear it said very much.
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park sang joonI'd like to know why "I'm gone" is used, not "I am going/ I will go."
It seems to me that the reason for this is that the exchange takes place in a very casual setting.

To my ear, "I'm gone" is like "I am, in effect, not even here. It's got nothing to do with me, because I didn't talk to Miranda, I don't want to talk to Miranda, and I'm
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I read it the way Clive did. I'm so eager to ask her that I'm leaving immediately to do so.
Context would tell.
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