Those dialects are nasty beasties.Originally Posted by xerxesdaphat
I was taught to never use the word got. Any use of this in a school exam automatically got you a deduction from your final mark.
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Those dialects are nasty beasties.
I was taught to never use the word got. Any use of this in a school exam automatically got you a deduction from your final mark.
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Woot! Meh, eh?
e mare libertas
Indeed. 'Gotten' is an archaic form. The BDOTGNZA should stop picking nits off the hairs they're splitting and concentrate on degeneration, not resurrection.
kiwibiker is full of love, an disrespect.
- mikey
Forum whore
An ill-gotten notion best for-gotten. I can't think what's gotten into you.
Well enough for you young folk, but I'll stick with the good old ways.
If it were good enough for young Geoffrey, 'twere good enough for me
For he had gotten him yet no benefice,
Ne was not worldly, to have an office.
For him was lever have at his bed's head
Twenty bookes, clothed in black or red,
Of Aristotle, and his philosophy,
Than robes rich, or fiddle, or psalt'ry.
Forum whore
Wot aboot Doric, aye?
Psyclepath
While we're at the hair-splitting level, does anyone want to advance Bill Bryson's argument that American English has, in fact, diverged less from the English spoken by the Pilgrim Fathers at the time they left England...?
Only a homo puts an engine back together WITHOUT making it go faster.
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And, more importantly than semantic quibbles, note - STILL no mention of green stamps!
e mare libertas
Well, I'd certainly rather listen to Bostonian than Scouse.
Then again, it's not hard for average American English to avoid divergence; each generation seems to restrict itself to a subset of its parent's vocabulary.
In another century or two, the Jean Claude van Damme types crawling through Murka's post-apocalyptic ruins will undoubtedly communicate using only the words "attorney" and "cheeseburger".
kiwibiker is full of love, an disrespect.
- mikey
NEDWN VIII
The question has to aksed....is the word TEXTED.......(as in 'a text has been sent)..the right term?....or even a word for that matter?
I think not........if you have sent a text?....you have just 'text' that person...
TEXTED IS NOT A WORD
McNoob
fuk'n eh man .. just doesn't have the same visual appeal eh?
I think "fuk'n ay man" should be an exception
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I always thought it was Fuck'n A. As in, A is for Outstanding.
Deus ex ukulele
Indeed. And O is for awesome, to quote David Tua.
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
frequent infrequenter
that's what happens when you bang your head too much.
My mother always told me I'd just go blind..
Psyclepath
Was that a deliberate pick of two heavily Irish-influenced accents? I'll disagree on that point, but if someone shoots every last Brummie they'd be doing the worlds' ears a favour for sure.
Only a homo puts an engine back together WITHOUT making it go faster.
Deus ex ukulele
In this context "text" is a verb, a contraction of "text message". We're lucky in New Zealand. Other countries have assigned verb status to the abbreviation SMS.
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
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