What would be the search string?
And now I'm channelling Michael Jackson
"Just Google it! Google it!"
Hey! What a surprise! Hostile 17! Can I get you a drink, Hostile 17?
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Connie Neil - Oct 14, 2003 6:14:07 pm PDT #6376 of 10000
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Connie Neil - Oct 14, 2003 6:30:21 pm PDT #6377 of 10000
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The American/British-British/American Dictionary.
Ethan would be yelling about Giles not having a mobile.
P.M. Marc - Oct 14, 2003 6:31:15 pm PDT #6378 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
What would be the search string?
Mobile Cell UK US would probably be what I'd start with, but I see you found it.
Leigh - Oct 14, 2003 7:03:10 pm PDT #6379 of 10000
Nobody
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It's odd--I can't figure out whether I'm more likely to use 'got' or 'gotten' in a sentence. I know I'd say, 'why haven't you gotten it fixed yet?', but I'd also say 'Haven't you got it fixed?'. Maybe it's to do with how formal I'm being.
P.M. Marc - Oct 14, 2003 7:05:18 pm PDT #6380 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Leigh!
So, you OZ peeps use gotten, too? Just those English *FREAKS* who don't?
Leigh - Oct 14, 2003 7:33:34 pm PDT #6381 of 10000
Nobody
Plei! (Dude, our names rhyme. I don't know why I find that so freaky.)
Just those English *FREAKS* who don't?
So they don't use it at all? That's what my OED says, and I suppose it should know, but the mind, it boggles.
P.M. Marc - Oct 14, 2003 8:07:25 pm PDT #6382 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
So they don't use it at all? That's what my OED says, and I suppose it should know, but the mind, it boggles.
I know! It's like when people say the don't like Wesley, and my brain goes all confuzzled!
(Hey! We do rhyme. How 'bout that?)
Am-Chau Yarkona - Oct 14, 2003 10:28:29 pm PDT #6383 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Yes, Brits tend to say 'mobile'. Sometimes, it's just 'phone' (pronounced with a special empasis, so that you can tell it's spelt 'fone'). I, personally, despise the latter, and am pushing for the use of 'field telephonical', but it hasn't caught on yet.
So they don't use it at all? That's what my OED says, and I suppose it should know, but the mind, it boggles.
I have never used 'gotten' in a sentance. (Until I wrote that one, if you don't count writing American characters-- even then, it's something that often doesn't go into until a beta's pointed out where it should be.)
Theodosia - Oct 15, 2003 2:12:43 am PDT #6384 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I seem to recall somewhere that 'gotten' is actually the older form, and while the British usage progressed and became more streamlined, American (and Austrailian usage, I suppose) retained the anachronism.
§ ita § - Oct 15, 2003 4:03:53 am PDT #6385 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
while the British usage progressed and became more streamlined, American (and Austrailian usage, I suppose) retained the anachronism.
Which is what happened with "fall" too, IIRC.
edit: versus "autumn"