Re: USAGE: gotten

It's ungrammatical to traditionalists but has come
into usage and acceptance in the States via sloppy
teaching.

Clint

--- Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...> wrote:
> I was just installing Windows XP today and happened
> to notice that it
> said 'If you've had a computer before, you've
> probably GOTTEN things the
> way you like it', or some-such like that (the actual
> wording isn't
> important, 'gotten' there is being used in the same
> way as it was on the
> banner).
>
> 'Gotten' there seems wrong to me (and my younger
> brother, who generally
> speaks more Americanly than I do). Is that some
> usage of 'gotten' that
> hasn't (yet) passed into Australian English, or is
> it ungrammatical in
> the US too and just somehow managed to slip through?
>
> (My brother suggested that 'gotten' is used more to
> mean 'received',
> although 'I've gotten it' sounds wrong to me, too...
> I never (rarely)
> use 'gotten'; my younger brother does.)
>
> Tristan

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