Uncle Ebenezer

"Gotten" fell out of use in "British English" somewhere round the time the Pilgrim Fathers set sail, in the Mayflower, so it's not really surprising it would sound funny to a Brit, is it? Particularly coming from a Brit, on a British forum.

SultanOfSwing

I think you forgot to say "Oooooooooo" at the start of that, as is the way us Brits speak, as I am reliably informed ...

Hiro11

I think there are three options here:
1. You suffer from terminal "inability to sense a joke on the internet, even when smilies are included" syndrome.
2. You are just bored and trying to spark something, anything that will relieve this terminal boredom.
3. You're a jerk.

I began by thinking we were in a "1" situation. Now I'm thinking we're in a number "2" situation (haw). It would be simply ghastly of me to even consider that we're in a "3" situation.

Hiro11

... populated entirely by people who live in the States. Though perhaps that was ghastly of me to make that comment.

fatbrit

If you'd had a better education, perhaps you would have understood. Bet you wish you had, eh?

SultanOfSwing

We're in a number "5" situation - you have mistaken me for someone who gives two shits about the opinion of anyone other than myself unless it suits me to do otherwise ...

That means I'm combining numbers 2 and 3, though I prefer to self-identify as a c***, but that's a matter of preference.

There's a big, wide world outside the USA forums. Being an American, I can excuse you for not knowing that, of course.

Uncle Ebenezer

The fact any of us have decided to frequent this forum, illustrates that we all want to retain our "Britishness", does it not? Some of us (though, obviously, not you), are easily able to employ American usage, when doing business, but lapse back into British usage, when conversing with our fellow countrymen.

Bob

Oh dear....this is all going a bit pear shaped isn't it.

Do I need to close this thread? Or can we all kiss, make up and take the mick out of the French instead?

SultanOfSwing

If a Frenchie comes in and starts using English incorrectly, then I'm fully on board with your excellent suggestion Bob, old boy.

GeoffM

Can we do that anyway?

Uncle Ebenezer

Close one of Sue's threads? Go on then, Bob ...

Bob

Well that's why I was giving everyone a olive branch...that and well, everyone takes the mick out of the French anyway

Uncle Ebenezer

Well, let's just pretend Hiro's a frog then.

scrubbedexpat094

I only happened to mention that I hated the word 'gotten' & all hell breaks loose. I seemed to have turned into a troll . How simply ghastly


Now about the Frogs......

Sue

Oh dear ... what have I started?