I just heard a lady on CNN say "...had been gotten..." WTF.

[lonestarnot]

Where do they get these people?

[Avalux]

1. Teleprompter readers have atrocious grammar.

I listen to them sometimes and wonder....there is no standard anymore and the people listening don't care. Our country is regressing intellectually.

[muntrv]

2. From the Miss USA pageant?

[Orrex]

3. I think those people have been gotten from a remedial English class

[doc03]

4. What be wrong with that? n/t

[lonestarnot]

5. FOCUS doc03.

:rofl:

[bigwillq]

6. Better yet

why do people watch these people? :shrug:

[PoliticAverse]

7. "The bagel had been gotten at a local deli". n/t

http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/got.html

[lonestarnot]

23. Use, but not the context.

[dhill926]

8. should have been.....

haz be gotten.....

[aikoaiko]

9. Was she describing a mafia hit?

anybody can be got.

[lonestarnot]

10. I don't think she knew what the fuck she was describing whatever it was.

and that's what they say.

[Kurovski]

11. Vas dey gotten da feesh, maybe? Trowin' avay da ontrayels?

[lonestarnot]

12. No, I'm sure da feesh dey gotten away, She on the otherhand reminds me of a blowfish.

[NICO9000]

13. She can haz bagels?

:evilgrin:

[lonestarnot]

24. for her head.

[snagglepuss]

14. Actually it's correct grammar. Past Perfect passvie voice

Barron's 1001 Pitfalls in English Grammar, 3rd edition, The authors and publisher are American.


To get

Principal Parts: get, getting, got, got (gotten)

Active Voice
Infinitive: to get
Perfect Infinitive: to have got, gotten
Present Participle: getting
Past Participle: got, gotten

Indicative Mood:
Pres... I get
Pres... I am getting
Prog... you are getting
Pres... I do get
Int.... you do get
Fut.... I shall get
Cond... I would get
Past... I got
Past... you were getting
Past... I did get
Int.... you did get
Pres... I have got, gotten
Perf... you have got, gotten
Past... I had got, gotten
Perf... you had got, gotten
Fut.... I shall have got, gotten
Perf... you will have got, gotten
Cond... I would have got, gotten
Perf... you would have got, gotten

Imperative Mood: get

Subjunctive Mood:
Pres... if I get
Past... if I got
Fut.... if I should get

Passive Voice
Infinitive: to be gotten
Perfect Infinitive: to have been gotten
Present Participle: being gotten
Past Participle: been gotten

Indicative Mood:
Pres... I am gotten
Pres... I am being gotten
Prog... you are being gotten
Pres... I do get gotten
Int.... you do get gotten
Fut.... I shall be gotten
Cond... I would be gotten
Past... I was gotten
Past... I was being gotten
Prog... you were being gotten
Past... I did get gotten
Int.... you did get gotten
Pres... I have been gotten
Perf... you have been gotten
Past... I had been gotten
Perf... you had been gotten
Fut.... I shall have been gotten
Perf... you will have been gotten
Cond... I would have been gotten
Perf... you would have been gotten

Imperative Mood: be gotten

Subjunctive Mood:
Pres... if I be gotten
Past... if I were gotten
Fut.... if I should be gotten

[Obamanaut]

15. This will halt the fun in this thread. nt

[Arkansas Granny]

17. Thanks for that. I've been trying to figure out what was wrong with the statement.

It sounded OK to me.

[pipi_k]

21. Me too, which is why...

I always say "Google is our friend".

Or some search engine, anyway.

When in doubt, look it up.


I'm not real fond of embarrassing myself by making fun of someone else when the person was actually correct...

:+

[snagglepuss]

27. It sounds strange on its own especially if people use 'got' instead of 'gotten'.

I only recently found out that 'gotten' is American, the English hate the word, but it seems lots of Americans don't use it. And given the relatively recent push to get rid of irregular verbs, confusion will reign as to whose grammar is correct.

[Arkansas Granny]

30. So many of the rules have changed since I was in school or even had kids

in school to keep me abreast of modern rules, that I never know what is accepted these days. I was surprised to learn a few months ago that it is now OK to only use one space after a period instead of two.

[pipi_k]

32. Two things I had to look up before raising a stink about them...

1. The word "momento" which I've often heard used in place of the word "memento".

Which "Wiktionary" says is so common it's not even considered a misspelling anymore.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/momento


and

2. The word "drug" used in place of "dragged". Mostly I've heard it from people who live in the South. I always thought it was used from stupidity, but turns out it's dialectic.



The other one that bugs me is when people say "expresso" instead of "espresso". But so far that one hasn't changed yet, so it's still really espresso.

Until some dictionary publisher decides it's OK to pronounce an "x" where there isn't one.

;)

[BOG PERSON]

25. d'oh!

[DevonRex]

28. Thank you. nt

[Swede]

31. It are?

[Odin2005]

16. That's grammatically correct. Pluperfect Passive.

[piratefish08]

18. i've often misunderestimated the use of the word 'gotten'

[LeftinOH]

19. Might it have been "hatt bin götten"? Of course that's just bad German. n/t

[Gator_Matt]

20. "Interestinger and interestinger"

During election night in 2000, someone on CNN said that the election was getting "interestinger and interestinger." I kid you not. I can't remember who it was; most likely someone fired thereafter!

[Obamanaut]

22. Don't you just hate it when that sort of thing turns out to be correct. nt

[Romulox]

26. What's stranger to me is this: the OP has never heard this construction used correctly?

:wtf:

[Obamanaut]

35. If that's true, I hope the OP is not a teacher. nt

[meow mix]

29. idiocracy "hot naked chicks and world report"

:rofl:

[Jazz Ambassador]

33. I once heard a CNN weather forecaster refer to a thunderstorm

as a "rain event." I kid you not.

[RebelOne]

34. A speaker on CSpan at the House of Representatives

today said "a outstanding group of schools." A outstanding?

[Spike89]

36. Speak enough and anyone sounds bad sometimes

First, I am an editor by profession and not an anti-grammarian by any means. Second, verbal tics, nonsensical or out-of-context slang, and most "planned" affectations are terribly annoying. However, the rules for verbal expression have always been and always will need to be less stringent than the written word. Despite the quicker pace of written communication enabled by the Internet, it is inherently a slower, more measured form of communication and because it is still primarily a non-interactive form (text interaction is rarely truly real-time), precision is both easier and more needed.

Basically, speakers should be given much more slack. Oh, the example is awkward sounding, but not an error.