i am loathing the gradual creep of the term 'gotten' on here

[FrankietheSquealer]

Please desist

I use gotten, on here and in RL, so does some of my family members.

My bio GDad was French/Canadian and my Dad was SA, but very US influenced.

I've always heard it in use around Merseyside, especially amongst people who speak English, well.

It's here to stay and I do hope to see that one day you've gotten over it.

Ooh Frankie I was about to post about 'can I get'. I hate that too, if anyone says it to me I say, yes help yourself. I would never say it.

Agreed, I hate it!

Err - nobody said it means the same as forgotten...

I use it a lot.

I wrote this on another thread earlier "...the help I've gotten on MN in the last two days" - is this not okay?

I'm loving this latte, I should of bought two. My bad. Can I get another?

Sorry,that should be "should of gotten two"

www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/is-im-loving-it-proper-grammar

I used 'gotten' for a few years as a teen because it's what I learned from reading. I did a lot of reading. Then at some point I realised it was an Americanism and dropped it (mostly). I really couldn't care less if people want to use it though. Or should that be 'I could care less'?

I don’t mind "My bad" because it's slang and probably transient. Unless my friend in her 50s uses it, when I judge her. She's beyond redemption though - she once invited me for 'sipsies'.

Sorry, but it is Modern English (although, if I'm being technical, so is Shakespeare ). It may not be standard British English, but I really dislike the attitude that only Standard English is acceptable. This is an informal setting, and people write in their normal dialect style, and that is fine.

(In my dialect, people sometimes say 'yonder' instead of 'there'.)

NOT OK

Hate it. If you're American and use it, fair enough. But in British English it really grates on my ears, as do most words/phrases that feel overly American to me. 'Can I get' certainly falls into that category....

I'm a massive hairy pedant (if only usually in my head) and I use "I was sat" aaaall the time in informal speech, which I know makes some people's jaws twitch.

Can someone briefly tell me what's wrong with it please.

I'm Irish and use it quite a bit.

It's the tense?

I think it's just like I eat, I ate, I have eaten, isn't it? I get, I got, I have gotten, I shit, I shat, I have shitten

There is no problem with the tense. Some people don't realise that it has been in continual use in these islands for centuries, and think it has recently been imported back from the good ol' US of A. This makes them angry.

RH

Yes I'm good is so unlike us Brits. I'm alright used to be the best we got and suits us far better imo.

So is it okay to say "I have gotten" the same as "I have received"?

I dislike advise for advice though. Can you give me some advise?

The advice/advise distinction is maintained in American English as it is in British English.

i was sat is a halfway descent to i was LED

Fortycoats

NO NO NO , the word does not exist
I have got

Irish might be different