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

From:<raccoon@...>
Date:Friday, January 21, 2000, 0:55
> -----Original Message----- > From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU]On > Behalf Of Nik Taylor > Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 3:55 PM > To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU > 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