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[-] Zip2@feddit.uk 12 points 1 month ago

On a different note, why the increase in the UK using “gotten”? Please stop.

[-] jeeva@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

It's clearly down to the increase in visible moustache-twirling villains in the news, saying stuff like "and I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling kids."

Or something.

Personally, I'm also annoyed at the increased use of "needs done", which feels like it's missing half a sentence. But hey, languages are big - and can fit a lot of different usage.

[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

needs done

Could you use it in a sentence, or is that literally the sentence?

“Can you clean the toilet? It needs done.” - like this, or?

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 14 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the knee-trembler, consider my needs done.

[-] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

Yes like that the carpet needs vacuumed. I hate it. They remove the Hamlet from the situation there is no " to be"

[-] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

They drop "to be" for infinitive verbs. The clothes need washed. That bully needs beat up. Etc.

[-] klemptor@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago

My brother-in-law says the dishes "need washed" and I can't tell you how badly that grates on me.

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago

Was he dropped on his head as a child because there's clearly something not right there?

[-] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

They need educated

[-] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago

It has definitely gotten worse, I blame the parents

[-] casmael@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago
[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago
[-] casmael@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Safe yeh hundred percen’ m8

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 month ago

sounds like you've done got gotten

languages change gramps, get with the times.

[-] Zip2@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago

Get with the times. as in the 1500s?

Get off my lawn, you damn colonial kids!

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I've used gotten for decades in the US?

[-] Zip2@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago

I have heard that US English is much closer to the English of the 1600s, whereas ours evolved under the influence of French, and I guess some things dropped out of common usage. Gotten being one of them, posssibly until the invention of YouTube sped up globalisation.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Oh that's interesting. Because we all think of the British accent as code for colonial period speech on TV shows.

[-] Zip2@feddit.uk 6 points 1 month ago

I was watching a video about that the other day, turns out the generic American accent is probably closer to the English accent of the time than ours is.

[-] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

You also use question marks to end statements.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago
[-] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

In that context, you're implying that you can't believe you use it that way

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Sometimes I can't believe anything.

[-] apotheotic@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago

Our ill-gotten language changes will forever haunt us

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