I’m in/from the US and I don’t take any offense at the opinions expressed in the thread
Good.
Non intended on my part I can assure you. 🙂
ourmaninthenorth – Member
gotten
Eh? A more “correct” past participle of “got”, which was exported to the New World and neatly maintained without Brits making the effort and you’re complaining?
Hmm.
You could look at it another way:
American English an British English are very different languages.
Therefore, ‘gotten’ was not maintained by busydog and his countrymen, it was appropriated.
It could be said that it is no longer a synonym for ‘got’, despite what some British English users, so eager to ape American culture, might think.
You need to be careful: getting into this sort if ill informed chauvinism can confuse a stupid person.
I don’t think an appreciation of British English could be classed as chauvinism without some other fairly substantial supporting evidence. 😀