Re: USAGE: "gotten" (was: Latin) verb examples and tense meanings

Padraic Brown wrote:
> Hardly nonsense! Take a 30 year old who is constantly getting himself
> into trouble and who ought to know better: he certainly hasn't gotten
> any sense yet! Certainly nonsense with the meaning or intention of "he
> has no sense".
I dunno, I'd never say "He hasn't gotten any sense".  I'd say "He's got
no sense" or "He has no sense".  Possession of sense does, admittedly,
imply acquisition of sense, but nevertheless, to state it as "he hasn't
acquired any sense" is just very unnatural, at least to me.

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