"I've got" it!

[skydived19006 4]

"I've got" obviously a contraction for "I have got" which is also obviously redundant. Why not simply say "I have..." which would be correct, or "I got...", which sounds stupid.

Actually, I already "have got" my answer. I did a search for "I've got" in the bonfire and found hundreds of subjects from folks around the country, though I didn't check on the UK, Down Under, etc.

Experience is what you get when you thought you were going to get something else.

AC DZ

[futuredivot 0]

I thought it was a Sonny and Cher thing

You are only as strong as the prey you devour

[rhaig 0]

I grew up near Wichita, and I say I've got it. So I don't know if it's a KS thing, a midwest thing, or what.

But, I don't really give a shit.

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[skydived19006 4]

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I grew up near Wichita, and I say I've got it. So I don't know if it's a KS thing, a midwest thing, or what.

But, I don't really give a shit.

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I don't know that I really give a shit either, but "people do judge you by the words you use!" Use words such "irregardless", and "I've got", "you'ns" and you just may be considered to be...

Experience is what you get when you thought you were going to get something else.

AC DZ

[airathanas 0]

Something that I noticed people in the South say that makes no sense whatsoever is, "right quick." Huh? Shouldn't it be, "right away" or "quickly" but when they are said together it just sounds, well, stupid- to me anyway. Then again, I'm from New York, where we say, "forgdaboutit."

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[MikeJD 0]

We rarely say "I have" over here. To me it sounds, well, American.

[ryoder 1,590]

Hope it isn't contagious.

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[freefal 0]

I ain't got it... but I'm fixin' ta git it!

"Ignorance is bliss" and "Patience is a virtue"... So if you're stupid and don't mind waiting around for a while, I guess you can have a pretty good life!

[skydived19006 4]

"You've got mail!" it's institutional, no wonder we talk like a bunch of idiots.

Experience is what you get when you thought you were going to get something else.

AC DZ

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I thought it was a Sonny and Cher thing

I thought it was an antibiotic thing

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I thought it was a Sonny and Cher thing

I thought it was an antibiotic thing

Nothing a shot in the ass won't cure.

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
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[shropshire 0]

In a similar vein... you folks over the water also say 'gotten' rather a lot, which is odd to British ears.

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We rarely say "I have" over here. To me it sounds, well, American.

I say "I have" ... "I got" sounds common/chavvy to me, being from them Midlands (where we all speak proper)

Oh and another strange Americanism would be "being as I am ......"

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Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[airtwardo 7]

Myself instead of me is one that I always hear when it's misused.

"Bob and myself did such & such"....

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

[shropshire 0]

"Bob and I" - would I think, be more correct.

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"Bob and I" - would I think, be more correct.

Now what did I tell you about thinking!

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[shropshire 0]

I've thunk wrong before..... ain't I?

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I've thunk wrong before..... ain't I?

Yup!

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[shropshire 0]

Here in East Anglia they have some interesting regional variations that sound odd to the rest of the country ..


The past tense of To Snow is Snew - "It snew last week"

same with To Show - "I shew them around"


I love that languages have not been homogenised, it makes life interesting and gives ammunition to the Grammar Nazis

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Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

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been homogenised

...not that there's anything wrong with that!

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Here in East Anglia they have some interesting regional variations that sound odd to the rest of the country ..


The past tense of To Snow is Snew - "It snew last week"

same with To Show - "I shew them around"


I love that languages have not been homogenised, it makes life interesting and gives ammunition to the Grammar Nazis

Kind of like Shit/Shat!

One that every news reader constantly uses is co-conspirator, you can not conspire alone so it's redundant. Would we say co-brother, co-friend? "He co-conspired with his co-brother and co-friend."

"Myself" is so misused most don't even get it. We probably shouldn't even go into ending sentences with prepositions "Where you going to be at?"

"Stupid is as stupid does."

One of my English teachers said something to me that I thought somewhat profound at the time. "You should know how to speak and write correctly so you can when you want or need."

About 20 years ago I figured out how ignorant people who use a lot of profanity sound when they talk. Seems like they have a 50 word vocabulary. About ten years ago I also decided to attempt to speak and write a little bit more correctly. That said, any English Major could more than likely pick apart my last three paragraphs. And I can't spell worth a damn!

Martin

Experience is what you get when you thought you were going to get something else.

AC DZ

[Harmless 0]

Gotten and tooken are bad ones I picked from the south

However the one that drives me nuts is "fixin" as in "about to" I just don't get it... i.e. "I'm fixin to go to the store" ETA: and they usually pronounce it so bad that it sounds like "fittin"

Also how no one down here understands that "chunk" does not mean to throw or toss; "chuck" does...

"Damn you Gravity, you win again"

[shropshire 0]

As i said earlier Gotten does sound strange these days but I wonder if it's roots are the same as Forgotten?

Forget -> Forgotten
Get -> Gotten

If so, there could be some historical precedence.


Tooken on the other hand seems well wrong.

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Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[airathanas 0]

Something else that people say a LOT that bugs the hell out of me is when people say "drug" instead of "dragged." You got DRAGGED across the landing area, not drug!! Get it right people!!!

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[shropshire 0]

And another thing

Why would one say "two times" and not the much simpler and elegant "Twice"?

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Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome