Innovative Usage Thread

[Darren]

In a similar vein you can add redundant -en onto strong verbs without sounding too far of ( ... gotten,

i have bad news for you about the united states of america

pray tell

[Nortaneous]

In a similar vein you can add redundant -en onto strong verbs without sounding too far of ( ... gotten,

i have bad news for you about the united states of america

pray tell

the past participle of "get" is already "gotten" (and many nonstandard varieties replace the simple past of common strong verbs with the past participle)

[Darren]

i have bad news for you about the united states of america

pray tell

the past participle of "get" is already "gotten" (and many nonstandard varieties replace the simple past of common strong verbs with the past participle)

both are true of auseng too

[Travis B.]

In my idiolect for certain verbs I have a strong tendency to use the preterite plus -en to form new past participles which contrast with the StdE ones in subtle ways (e.g. "I've eaten my sandwich" is distinct from "I've aten my sandwich"; the latter intuitively feels more like a pluperfect to me).

[zompist]

IMD "got" and "gotten" have slightly different meanings: "got" merely implies possesion, "gotten" emphasizes acquisition. E.g.

"I've got the money" = I have it, it's available
"I've gotten the money" = I've acquired it, recently enough that it's news

[Travis B.]

IMD "got" and "gotten" have slightly different meanings: "got" merely implies possesion, "gotten" emphasizes acquisition. E.g.

"I've got the money" = I have it, it's available
"I've gotten the money" = I've acquired it, recently enough that it's news

This is true for me as well.

[Darren]

IMD "got" and "gotten" have slightly different meanings: "got" merely implies possesion, "gotten" emphasizes acquisition. E.g.

"I've got the money" = I have it, it's available
"I've gotten the money" = I've acquired it, recently enough that it's news

"Have got" functions for me as a present-tense construction with perfective Aktionsart. And it's deponent; no other forms like *"had got" or *"to have got" or *"could have got" exist with that meaning.

[Richard W]

IMD "got" and "gotten" have slightly different meanings: "got" merely implies possesion, "gotten" emphasizes acquisition. E.g.

"I've got the money" = I have it, it's available
"I've gotten the money" = I've acquired it, recently enough that it's news

"Have got" functions for me as a present-tense construction with perfective Aktionsart. And it's deponent; no other forms like *"had got" or *"to have got" or *"could have got" exist with that meaning.

Interesting. Is substandard 'got' as an uninflected present similarly defective? For me, a Briton, the infinitive in this meaning.the first, a synonym of 'to have', doesn't feel natural, but the rest of the semantically present and formally perfect forms seem to exist.

[Darren]

Interesting. Is substandard 'got' as an uninflected present similarly defective? For me, a Briton, the infinitive in this meaning.the first, a synonym of 'to have', doesn't feel natural, but the rest of the semantically present and formally perfect forms seem to exist.

I think in AusEng present "got" is fairly rare and when it occurs it behaves exactly the same as "have got".

[Richard W]

Interesting. Is substandard 'got' as an uninflected present similarly defective? For me, a Briton, the infinitive in this meaning.the first, a synonym of 'to have', doesn't feel natural, but the rest of the semantically present and formally perfect forms seem to exist.

I think in AusEng present "got" is fairly rare and when it occurs it behaves exactly the same as "have got".

What happens with the sequence of tenses, as in standard 'I said I'd got time to spare'? Does that get replaced by 'I said I had time to spare'?

[Darren]

Interesting. Is substandard 'got' as an uninflected present similarly defective? For me, a Briton, the infinitive in this meaning.the first, a synonym of 'to have', doesn't feel natural, but the rest of the semantically present and formally perfect forms seem to exist.

I think in AusEng present "got" is fairly rare and when it occurs it behaves exactly the same as "have got".

What happens with the sequence of tenses, as in standard 'I said I'd got time to spare'? Does that get replaced by 'I said I had time to spare'?

Yeah, the former sounds at best very weird (although parseable). The second is what I'd usually use.

[Travis B.]

I think in AusEng present "got" is fairly rare and when it occurs it behaves exactly the same as "have got".

What happens with the sequence of tenses, as in standard 'I said I'd got time to spare'? Does that get replaced by 'I said I had time to spare'?

Yeah, the former sounds at best very weird (although parseable). The second is what I'd usually use.

I am in agreement here. I would not call the former StE in the first place.

[Darren]

What happens with the sequence of tenses, as in standard 'I said I'd got time to spare'? Does that get replaced by 'I said I had time to spare'?

Yeah, the former sounds at best very weird (although parseable). The second is what I'd usually use.

I am in agreement here. I would not call the former StE in the first place.

Yet googling does find plenty of attestations-

"Remember I said I'd got Yellow Rattle seedlings coming up?"
"I said I'd got three brothers-in-law, right?"
"And I said I'd got a sense of what was right"

Still doesn't sound right to me though.

[Raphael]

From one of the latest spams by the online store where I usually get my ebooks:

"Hier kommt buchige Sommerinspiration!"

Something like, "Here comes booky/bookish summer inspiration", except that "buchig" isn't really a word in German.

[Travis B.]

From one of the latest spams by the online store where I usually get my ebooks:

"Hier kommt buchige Sommerinspiration!"

Something like, "Here comes booky/bookish summer inspiration", except that "buchig" isn't really a word in German.

Sounds like an attempted calque from English, because -y in English is an extremely productive adjective ending, and -ig is, of course, its German cognate. But it doesn't work in English either, because booky is not a common word in English (there is bookie, but it has an entirely different meaning, referring to a bookmaker).

[Zju]

“it blew 14-year-old me’s mind,”

Has anyone seen usage like present-years-old him's? Is it innovative or rather common?

[zompist]

“it blew 14-year-old me’s mind,”

Has anyone seen usage like present-years-old him's? Is it innovative or rather common?

That'd be weird for me.

[Travis B.]

“it blew 14-year-old me’s mind,”

Has anyone seen usage like present-years-old him's? Is it innovative or rather common?

That'd be weird for me.

That's weird for me too.

[Glass Half Baked]

I think the format is to use a noun, but for first and second person a pronoun has to suffice instead.

[Lērisama]

“it blew 14-year-old me’s mind,”

Has anyone seen usage like present-years-old him's? Is it innovative or rather common?

Innovative, but based on the pattern of using X-year-old Y. I've used something similar myself, I think