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Use of Have/Has Got in Jim's books
Mickey Finn:
It's low speak. High speak disdains vowels.
Jon Crenshaw:
My mind hurts.
Mickey's right. the (American) English language is constantly evolving new words, phrases, and grammatical rules.
In fact, this almost sounds like the next Fox News special: When Grammar Collides!
(side note re: throw up: that's a slang replacement for "vomit.' So trying to dissect the two components is something of a tailchaser. :)
XavierDLH:
--- Quote from: Jon Crenshaw on June 28, 2006, 05:34:46 PM ---Mickey's right. the (American) English language is constantly evolving new words, phrases, and grammatical rules.
--- End quote ---
That's not entirely correct. British English has changed more over the years than American English. American English is historically older.
For instance:
Most British people no longer recognize the word gotten.
Most British people fail to recognize the historically more accurate suffix -IZE, and instead prefer -ISE.
Words like center, theater, saber, and somber, et cetera, are older than the current British spellings (which they re-acquired from French around the 17th century) centre, theatre, sabre, sombre, et cetera.
There are many more examples, and I will cite my sources if asked. :)
Kali:
When I worked for AOL, back when it was just starting, we used to get a staggering amount of complaints over "You've got mail!"
Evidently, it's grammatically incorrect. The majority of complainers favored "You have mail!" as indicative of possession, but some few die-hards held out for "You got mail!" to say that one has received mail in the recent past.
Needless to say, AOL kept its gramatically incorrect mail greeting, though I strongly suspect they chose that so they wouldn't have to pay someone to re-record it...
Most of the call center employees at the time, FYI, favored "Yo bi*ch, check yo da**ed mail!" This suggestion underwhelmed upper management. Facists.
Mickey Finn:
Dude, you're gettin' a Dell.*
*Of course, after that kid got arrested, it was, "Dude, you're getting a cell."
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