Rock_Steady Posted February 19, 2015 Posted February 19, 2015 (edited) It's an Americanism, so barely acceptable. Referring to gotten, sorry. Hugh has kindly pointed it out to me via PM, but I've left it up to see how quickly someone else finds it. Just for the record, "gotten" is not an Americanism. In the states they speak an older form of English compared to us Brits who speak a more evolved form. The "ten" from gotten is just how it used to be, we've just dropped it off the past participle. Edited February 24, 2015 by Rock_Steady Quote
Rock_Steady Posted February 19, 2015 Posted February 19, 2015 (edited) "was" being used where "were" should be interesting example. Agreed it's gramatically OED type wrong. But it's SO common and frequently used by the people here I have figured it's up there same as having an accent or a type of regional slang. This is true of the 2nd Conditional. It used to always be "if I were you...". But since so many English speakers say "was" instead" or "were" it's now accepted in the grammar. Edited February 19, 2015 by Rock_Steady Quote
glrnet Posted February 19, 2015 Posted February 19, 2015 It's an Americanism, so barely acceptable. Referring to gotten, sorry. Hugh has kindly pointed it out to me via PM, but I've left it up to see how quickly someone else finds it. Just for the record, "gotten" is not an Americanism. In the states they speak an older form of English compared to us Brits who speak a more evolved form. The "ten" from gotten is just how is used to be, we've just dropped it off the past participle. Wow, that's interesting, I also naturally assumed it was one of those horrible Americanisms. Just goes to show what I knew!!? Quote
Adrian@TORQEN Posted February 19, 2015 Author Posted February 19, 2015 See Papa? What expectations can you have from me, a bloody foreigner... :lol: Quote
Payco Posted February 20, 2015 Posted February 20, 2015 Their is know way you will either fix this problem becorse you just w'ont Quote
RobPhoboS Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 I've just seen a thread that made me twitch and feel all weird. I had to bump this up. 1 Quote
ChrisB Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 Too soon, but after he's pm'd Alex and his problem has been sorted, perhaps he can be ATTAK Z'd ...eh? 1 Quote
glrnet Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 Too soon, but after he's pm'd Alex and his problem has been sorted, perhaps he can be ATTAK Z'd ...eh? Yup, he's got enough real grief going on at the moment 1 Quote
ZMANALEX Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 At least he has apologised about his righting Yeah, agree, spelling etc is the least of his worries at the moment. 1 Quote
Adrian@TORQEN Posted March 31, 2015 Author Posted March 31, 2015 (edited) There's blood all over my retina screen! :cry: Edited March 31, 2015 by octet@TORQEN Quote
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