Why do you omit g when singing "waiting" in continuous reading? Is it because of continuous reading?

Hello, subject.

Not only in pop music, but also in informal situations, especially native American English speakers, /?/ will be omitted as /n/, recorded as: ing——in'.

This is a typical omission (swallowing), which can also be regarded as a kind of continuous reading, and is a common speech flow phenomenon in English. It's not intentional, it just happens naturally. When the user is proficient enough, in order to pursue efficiency and speed up, the above phenomenon will occur unintentionally. Of course, it is also related to the culture and history of the United States. If you are interested, you can learn about it on your own.

In short, it saves trouble and it comes naturally.

It is not easy to summarize, I hope the author of the question will adopt it!

Extended information: The evolution history of American English

In the early 17th century, Britain established colonies in North America. Most people know that the Mayflower arrived in Plymouth in 1620 and the establishment of Massachusetts was the beginning of British colonial rule in North America, but in fact the first British North American colony was established in 1607 by King James I. The first town established was called "Jamestown", which means "James' town" (it was later destroyed due to natural disasters and man-made disasters), and the first colony was named "Virginia", which means "virgin land". This began the historical process of British immigration to North America. The reign of James I also happened to be the golden age of Shakespeare's creation, and English at this time was in the middle of early modern English. The respective locations of Virginia and Massachusetts However, although the Mayflower did not bring the first group of colonists, it was the first group of Puritans to arrive in North America. The Mayflower Compact they signed also became the blueprint for the Declaration of Independence during the American Revolutionary War. The United States to this day is a country dominated by Puritans. It can be said that cultural and political conservatism are characteristics that the United States brought from its mother's womb. Because of this, the "Mayflower" becomes so important that most people Virginia's existence was ignored.

The restored Mayflower brought the first Puritans to North America, but the good times did not last long. Starting in the 1650s, due to economic oppression, the conflicts between the North American colonies and the British mainland deepened day by day. In the 1960s, the Stuart dynasty was restored in the United Kingdom, and Charles II ascended to the British throne. He introduced a new immigration policy that prohibited skilled craftsmen from immigrating to the North American colonies. In addition, the domestic economic environment in the United Kingdom was relatively good at that time, and it was also very popular. Few people were willing to immigrate, which directly resulted in the British mainland almost no longer sending immigrants to the North American colonies. Therefore, most of the residents of the newly established British colonies in North America after 1660 came from the old colonies, other European countries, and the black slave trade, and the British North American colonies Population exchanges with the British mainland are decreasing day by day, and the evolution speed of English in the North American colonies has gradually failed to keep up with the evolution speed of English in the British mainland. Therefore, when the British mainland uses angry to replace mad, the North American colonies are still using the word mad. While the British mainland has replaced I guess with I think, the North American colonies are still using the expression I guess.

The new immigration policy of Charles II led to a rapid reduction in population exchanges between Britain and the United States. At the same time, due to the characteristics of the "melting pot of nations" in the colonies, American English, in addition to absorbing more languages ????from other European immigrants, also It absorbed the language of North American Indians. For example, the word cookie was borrowed from Dutch and was originally used to describe small Dutch cakes that did not exist in British English. Semester comes from German, and it needs to be distinguished from term in British English because of the different semester arrangements. The iconic retroflex sound /r/ in American English today is also due to the retention of the pronunciation characteristics of English in Shakespeare's time. The /r/ sound has long been replaced by the long vowel /a:/ in British English.

In addition to natural evolution, the differences between American and British English are partly caused by man-made changes. With the outbreak of the Revolutionary War and the rise of American nationalism, in order to show their differences from the British mainland and in the spirit of pragmatism, many revolutionaries began to deliberately create differences in language and writing. The leader among them was Benjamin Franklin. This trend of thought directly influenced the American lexiconist Webster. When Webster compiled the American Dictionary of the English Language, the spelling of many words was deliberately changed. Words such as color, theater, catalog, and program were all direct products of this trend of thought. Franklin not only influenced American history, but also the American language.

In addition to the above two reasons, the relative geographical isolation of the United States is also one of the reasons why the evolution of American English cannot keep up with the British mainland. Through this special world map, we find that the location of the British North American colonies at that time was actually quite "isolated" from the world. Although it was possible to connect with Europe by sea, before airplanes were invented, crossing the Atlantic Ocean by ship alone was a time-consuming and labor-intensive matter. To a certain extent, this also reduced the desire of native British residents to immigrate to North America when the country's economy was rising and employment was abundant. It made the North American colonies intentionally or unintentionally become a "language island" and slowed down the evolution of American English. Examples here can refer to the evolution of Chinese in northern and southern China.

The vast North China Plain in the north is conducive to language exchanges between different regions, which greatly promotes the evolution of northern Chinese and enhances the internal consistency of northern Chinese dialects; while the Jiangnan region is mountainous and hilly, and transportation was inconvenient in ancient times, resulting in a relatively Due to the isolation, the evolution speed of southern Chinese is relatively slow, and the dialect differences between different regions are large. This impact is particularly evident among the Hakka people who are more isolated. This is true even within a country, let alone across an ocean.