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Gotten is an old english word no longer used in its original manner. It meant gained. Today it is only used as an adjunct in terms like Ill-gotten or Mis-begotten. I know USians still employ it as a word, but there lies many a difference! :) Funnily it is not a word I disapprove of as it is still within the English Language. Dove as a past participle though! Urghhh! Dived please!
------------------------------------ "Will you marry me? Are you rich?, Don't answer in that order" Groucho Marx
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Gotten is an old english word no longer used in its original manner. It meant gained. Today it is only used as an adjunct in terms like Ill-gotten or Mis-begotten. I know USians still employ it as a word, but there lies many a difference! :) Funnily it is not a word I disapprove of as it is still within the English Language. Dove as a past participle though! Urghhh! Dived please!
------------------------------------ "Will you marry me? Are you rich?, Don't answer in that order" Groucho Marx
which is better? I dove into the water? I dived into the water? Personally, I like the first since it sounds better. It's also easier to say.
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which is better? I dove into the water? I dived into the water? Personally, I like the first since it sounds better. It's also easier to say.
Sounds better has nothing to do with it. He dived into the water. ENGLISH He dove into the water. MANGLED AMERICANISED ENGLISH The Clue to the Language is in it's name!
------------------------------------ "Will you marry me? Are you rich?, Don't answer in that order" Groucho Marx
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Gotten is an old english word no longer used in its original manner. It meant gained. Today it is only used as an adjunct in terms like Ill-gotten or Mis-begotten. I know USians still employ it as a word, but there lies many a difference! :) Funnily it is not a word I disapprove of as it is still within the English Language. Dove as a past participle though! Urghhh! Dived please!
------------------------------------ "Will you marry me? Are you rich?, Don't answer in that order" Groucho Marx
Do you even understand why I posted this?
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
Gotten is an old english word no longer used in its original manner. It meant gained. Today it is only used as an adjunct in terms like Ill-gotten or Mis-begotten. I know USians still employ it as a word, but there lies many a difference! :) Funnily it is not a word I disapprove of as it is still within the English Language. Dove as a past participle though! Urghhh! Dived please!
------------------------------------ "Will you marry me? Are you rich?, Don't answer in that order" Groucho Marx
"He dove through the air with the greatest of ease" "He dived through the air with the greatest of ease" Hmm, personally I think I'd prefer the former, it seems to sound better.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
I know USians still employ it as a word, but there lies many a difference!
Eh, ask any American - we speak English, you guys speak... some degenerate dialect. ;-P
USians speak something approximating English, but with curious spellings, appalling grammar and a quaint syntax! :)
------------------------------------ "Will you marry me? Are you rich?, Don't answer in that order" Groucho Marx
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Do you even understand why I posted this?
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001Truthfully? No! Do tell!
------------------------------------ "Will you marry me? Are you rich?, Don't answer in that order" Groucho Marx
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Sounds better has nothing to do with it. He dived into the water. ENGLISH He dove into the water. MANGLED AMERICANISED ENGLISH The Clue to the Language is in it's name!
------------------------------------ "Will you marry me? Are you rich?, Don't answer in that order" Groucho Marx
Bah humbug! You're just jealous because we can spell with fewer letters than you!
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Truthfully? No! Do tell!
------------------------------------ "Will you marry me? Are you rich?, Don't answer in that order" Groucho Marx
Check the SoapBox 2.0...
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
"He dove through the air with the greatest of ease" "He dived through the air with the greatest of ease" Hmm, personally I think I'd prefer the former, it seems to sound better.
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I strived to learn English, I did not Strove! :-D
------------------------------------ "Will you marry me? Are you rich?, Don't answer in that order" Groucho Marx
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Gotten is an old english word no longer used in its original manner. It meant gained. Today it is only used as an adjunct in terms like Ill-gotten or Mis-begotten. I know USians still employ it as a word, but there lies many a difference! :) Funnily it is not a word I disapprove of as it is still within the English Language. Dove as a past participle though! Urghhh! Dived please!
------------------------------------ "Will you marry me? Are you rich?, Don't answer in that order" Groucho Marx
Dalek Dave wrote:
Funnily it is not a word I disapprove of as it is still within the English LanguageAmerican English.
:-) If you take every word in every local dialect of English to be valid British English then your OED is going to expand from a shelf to a (largish) room.
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Truthfully? No! Do tell!
------------------------------------ "Will you marry me? Are you rich?, Don't answer in that order" Groucho Marx
And Chris doesn't like the word GOTTEN, so we bold it whenever we use it.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
I strived to learn English, I did not Strove! :-D
------------------------------------ "Will you marry me? Are you rich?, Don't answer in that order" Groucho Marx
Of course not, everybody knows that Strove isn't even a word! But dove is an exception, surely?
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Bah humbug! You're just jealous because we can spell with fewer letters than you!
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...and be right. :)
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
Dalek Dave wrote:
Funnily it is not a word I disapprove of as it is still within the English LanguageAmerican English.
:-) If you take every word in every local dialect of English to be valid British English then your OED is going to expand from a shelf to a (largish) room.
It already has over 1,000,000 words and is in 30 volumes!
------------------------------------ "Will you marry me? Are you rich?, Don't answer in that order" Groucho Marx
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And Chris doesn't like the word GOTTEN, so we bold it whenever we use it.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001I see you were being satirical! I am not overly keen on it, but now I know Chris is anti-gotten I shall enjoin the zeitgeist! :-D
------------------------------------ "Will you marry me? Are you rich?, Don't answer in that order" Groucho Marx
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...and be right. :)
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001rite
------------------------------------ "Will you marry me? Are you rich?, Don't answer in that order" Groucho Marx
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I strived to learn English, I did not Strove! :-D
------------------------------------ "Will you marry me? Are you rich?, Don't answer in that order" Groucho Marx
Oh, just because we think "dove" is a valid form of "dive", you think we're idiots and that the same rule should apply to words that are spelled similarly? C'mon, we all know English isn't that straightforward, and we also know that you're just being pedantic...
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
Oh, just because we think "dove" is a valid form of "dive", you think we're idiots and that the same rule should apply to words that are spelled similarly? C'mon, we all know English isn't that straightforward, and we also know that you're just being pedantic...
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001Me, a pedant? Surely not!
------------------------------------ "Will you marry me? Are you rich?, Don't answer in that order" Groucho Marx
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It already has over 1,000,000 words and is in 30 volumes!
------------------------------------ "Will you marry me? Are you rich?, Don't answer in that order" Groucho Marx
No need to pad it out further with non-Britishisms like gotten and y'all then...
