have got

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an entire page to do so? Sounds as if someone has got too much time on their hands

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so if a German gets sick in heaven, would that be ill gotten himmel?

so if a German gets sick in heaven, would that be ill gotten himmel?

I 100%  this post. I've got a lot of respect for this sort of thing.

   I have more problems with "have gotten."

I'm a writer (in theory) and my cardinal rule is that I only use got (to replace other words) in other characters' dialogue, never in narration. If I'm going to be honest, the use of got is meant to indicate that the characters using it have a low standard of spoken English, though there are times when not using it would make dialogue just not sound right from a rhythmical aspect.

I'll admit, one of the reasons I adopted this rule is because when a friend read an early draft of the novel I wrote, she criticised my excessive use of 'got', so I'm primarily using it to curb my laziness. Also, I appreciate that what I regard as a paucity of expression is regarded by others as simply American English.

I've read that the US English participle of 'to get' is 'gotten' while it's 'got' in other forms of English, but I find that the grammatical differences between US / rest of the world are extremely fluid anyway.

I often hear 'have got' as a form of emphasis.

I have got to get a tattoo like that one!

I have a pleasant collection of coconuts

couldn't open    no veal parmesan noodles

I often hear 'have got' as a form of emphasis.

I have got to get a tattoo like that one!

I think this usage is different from

"I have got a new book"

I'm quite fine with this, no ear-complaints here

Thanks to this thread I've been paying attention to how I use this, and it seems I use "I've got" or more rarely "I gotta" as in "I got a". I'm under 30 with a Midwestern American accent.

"I have got a new book"

I would have been corrected for saying this by my parents and my schools when I was quite young.

How other people speak doesn't bother me. When I was younger I used to make assumptions about education or even intelligence based on how people speak, however that's dangerous especially across generations and different cultural backgrounds.

I see it here sometimes where a foreigner is judging a Chinese person's intelligence based on their English skills.