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]

Mickey's right. the (American) English language is constantly evolving new words, phrases, and grammatical rules.

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."

[Ghoulfish]

Dell?
Cell?

I'm confused

Anyway the only perfect language is elvish
and that's final

(sin language is a close second)

or Latin - we should all speak latin
even math