Jayne ,'Out Of Gas'
Where the Buffistas let their fanfic creative juices flow. May contain erotica.
This is interesting, partly because I use "gotten" as well.
Now I'm wondering if it's because of my reading habits... I learned most of my language from books and have startled more than one person by using something archaic that I didn't know was archaic because it was Just Used in the book I read (sure, written in the 1700s, but I don't get your point). At least I stopped using phonics to determine pronunciation.
Pretty naff, really.
No, it's just me being dim. Dim dim dim. Like a thing that is dim. Eating Dim Sum. In a room with the curtains drawn. And no lightbulbs.
Ah, gray/grey, colour, flavour, judgement!
I love those words, though I always forget which gray is grey. I got very upset with one of my teachers in grade school for telling me colour was spelled wrong.
FayJay is so darling when she's flustered.
Oh, she's cute all the time.
To clarify - I believe that gotten is perfectly standard US usage. But it's archaic UK usage. Ditto normalcy.
feel like putting recommended music in with this.
But I won't.
A short note at the end of a piece saying "I was listening to such and such" would be lovely - Charles de Lint does that pretty often with his novels. Just please please please don't go the route of "during this particular scene, you MUST be listening to track X on CD blah" ...
... why yes, I once read and reviewed a novel that did just that. Said novel STILL holds the slot of "Worst Thing I've Ever Read. Ever."
Grey! Yes, I've always spelled it with an "e". I got self conscious about it a while ago and tried to fix it, but now I'm going to claim it as a printed dialect of my home region.
I will use "gotten" in speech, but I avoid writing it except in dialogue. I wonder if it comes from "forgotten" somehow, rootwise. wondering about the connection betrween "forget" and "get"
See - not cute. Spinstery professorial humourless type. C'est moi.
I have totally failed to do any of the essay writing that I urgently needed to do today. I have prevaricated, prevaricated, prevaricated. I have made myself new User Icons for my LJ. I have fannied about.
I am an ass.
Fay, was "gotten" ever used in the UK? I had the feeling it evolved on its own from everyday American usage.
Which is, as it happens, NOT a value judgement. I use US street slang and have a hiphop daughter. Yo!