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Re: USAGE: gotten

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Monday, June 24, 2002, 21:11
Tristan McLeay wrote:
> > Had i erased all of these emails on this subject, i'd not have gotten this > > far. I wonder if you've gotten the sarcasm of my email. ;). > > Okay... I definitely have no idea.
Speaking for my dialect. Gotten is used for get when it means: Receive Make/become (as in "get ready", "get things the way you like them")* Understand** Arrive* Etc. Got is used when it means: possess ("I've got one brother") must (I've got to get this done") Understand** For me, that's it. "(have) got" is, in fact, probably best analyzed as a form of "have". *"Got" is used by some here, but in my idiolect, it's ungramatical. **This is a weird one. I think that "got" is used when the thing being understood is unstated, for example, "I've got it!" or "Have you got it?" but, "Have you gotten the sarcasm of this e-mail?" So, your sentence that you weren't sure about, I'd say "I appear to have GOTTEN confused", because in that case, it means "become confused". -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42

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Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...>