The Word starring Timothy arbeu

[maks]

I do understand the difference between to, too, and two. I post with better grammar than any other member. How many times have I got flamed for being so grammar conscientious?

Gotten. "How many times have I gotten flamed". I'm not usually a grammar nazi, but in this context I had to.

[patrolled faggot]

Gotten. "How many times have I gotten flamed". I'm not usually a grammar nazi, but in this context I had to.

LOL

[maks]

The word "gotten" is only proper written English in New England so keep your Connecticut slang to yourself!


Although the British stopped using the past participle gotten about three hundred years ago, the American colonists and their descendants--especially in New England--still tend to use it.

Some English teachers have tried to ban its usage to make American English conform to British English, especially during the nineteenth and early twentieth century when there was a movement to purify English. Others are just not used to its use because it is not used in their region and hear it as an error.

Ultimately, language is convention. If you are writing for a formal audience outside of New England, you might want to use the simple past form got instead.

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_gotten_...#ixzz25nQFpIJF

I am not teaching ATM because my emotions may not be up to dealing with a family member dying while trying to be responsible for a whole bunch of children's education.

[patrolled faggot]

The word "gotten" is only proper written English in New England so keep your Connecticut slang to yourself!


Although the British stopped using the past participle gotten about three hundred years ago, the American colonists and their descendants--especially in New England--still tend to use it.

Some English teachers have tried to ban its usage to make American English conform to British English, especially during the nineteenth and early twentieth century when there was a movement to purify English. Others are just not used to its use because it is not used in their region and hear it as an error.

Ultimately, language is convention. If you are writing for a formal audience outside of New England, you might want to use the simple past form got instead.

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_gotten_...#ixzz25nQFpIJF

^ that's a smack down maks

[maks]

^ that's a smack down maks

no, it says 'especially new england', not 'exclusively new england'. Despite what yahoo answers or whatever he googled says, "gotten" is proper form in US english.

[patrolled faggot]

no, it says 'especially new england', not 'exclusively new england'. Despite what yahoo answers or whatever he googled says, "gotten" is proper form in US english.

nah, I trust google over you

you should probably go back to spamming quotes from me

you were doing better at that

The word is used in regions outside of New England but it is improper English or slang everywhere else in the United States and the world.

it's a past participle of "got" that fell out of use in England but continued being used in America (esp. new england, which was america at the time) how does that make it "improper English"?

[patrolled faggot]

it's a past participle of "got" that fell out of use in England but continued being used in America (esp. new england, which was america at the time) how does that make it "improper English"?

really?

you're going to carry on with this?

*YAWN*

please do... it might kill my insomnia