Re: USAGE: "gotten" (was: Latin) verb examples and tense meanings
| From: | <raccoon@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 21, 2000, 0:55 |
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> From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU]On
> Behalf Of Nik Taylor
> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 3:55 PM
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> Subject: Re: USAGE: "gotten" (was: Latin) verb examples and tense
> meanings
> Definitely. "Have got" is definitely informal.
Really? It's always sounded more formal to me, maybe because "have" seems
more common in simple sentences. Now that I think about it, it's more common
in the first and second persons; "I've got" and "you've got" seem more
marked and artificial to me than "he's got," for instance.
Eric Christopherson
raccoon@elknet.net