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Have you gotton a driving license?
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21 Jul 2008 Mon 08:14 pm |
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Quoting alameda: Quoting lady in red: Quoting yilgun-7: What Kind of Driver Are You?
Cool-headed, careful and experienced? |
Yilgun canım - there is no such word as ´gotton´ in the English language!  |
Aww come on, be gentle with him. He is trying. |
 for alameda for reminding that some people still learn
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21 Jul 2008 Mon 08:25 pm |
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Quoting alameda: Quoting lady in red: Quoting yilgun-7: What Kind of Driver Are You?
Cool-headed, careful and experienced? |
Yilgun canım - there is no such word as ´gotton´ in the English language! |
Aww come on, be gentle with him. He is trying. |
The fact that Turkish is not an easy language for you ´us´ to study ´if for nothing then sentence order is enough´ makes that English is NOT an easy language for him to study too
sentence order,Prepositions not easy for him to use
Not to mention the language logic is not also same.
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21 Jul 2008 Mon 08:26 pm |
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According to Dictionary.com the word ´gotton/gotten´ is a pp of ´got´.
I´ve heard it´s used in the US, perhaps Yilgun has too.
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21 Jul 2008 Mon 08:58 pm |
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Quoting peacetrain: According to Dictionary.com the word ´gotton/gotten´ is a pp of ´got´.
I´ve heard it´s used in the US, perhaps Yilgun has too. |
Exactly! Not proper English - do you teach your pupils to say ´gotton´?? 
And pp of ´got´? what? as in ´I got a cold´ - meaning ´I have a cold´ or ´I got top marks´
Allah Allah!! My English teacher would turn in her grave (again!) 
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21 Jul 2008 Mon 09:02 pm |
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Quoting lady in red:
Allah Allah!! My English teacher would turn in her grave (again!) |
 
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21 Jul 2008 Mon 09:08 pm |
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Quoting alameda: Quoting lady in red: Quoting yilgun-7: What Kind of Driver Are You?
Cool-headed, careful and experienced? |
Yilgun canım - there is no such word as ´gotton´ in the English language! |
Aww come on, be gentle with him. He is trying. |
How was that comment harsh? (I want to add a smiling smiley here to show my mood - but they don´t seem to be working for me(insert sad and confused smileys please)
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21 Jul 2008 Mon 09:09 pm |
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Quoting lady in red: Quoting peacetrain: According to Dictionary.com the word ´gotton/gotten´ is a pp of ´got´.
I´ve heard it´s used in the US, perhaps Yilgun has too. |
Exactly! Not proper English - do you teach your pupils to say ´gotton´??
And pp of ´got´? what? as in ´I got a cold´ - meaning ´I have a cold´ or ´I got top marks´
Allah Allah!! My English teacher would turn in her grave (again!) |
I would never use the word myself and yes it´s not used in England. However there are many words in the Oxford English Dictionary now that we members of a certain age would not agree with. Language is evolving all the time, probably why we don´t speak like Chaucer anymore.
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21 Jul 2008 Mon 09:12 pm |
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thanx goodness,Chaucer was my nightmare I do not think your comment was harsh,just lacked proper explanation,which Yilgun would appreciated.He must have checked this form in old dictionary edition 
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21 Jul 2008 Mon 09:17 pm |
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Quoting peacetrain:
I would never use the word myself and yes it´s not used in England. However there are many words in the Oxford English Dictionary now that we members of a certain age would not agree with. Language is evolving all the time, probably why we don´t speak like Chaucer anymore.
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OK you gotten your point across! Have a nice day!
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21 Jul 2008 Mon 09:22 pm |
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Quoting Avalon: thanx goodness,Chaucer was my nightmare I do not think your comment was harsh,just lacked proper explanation,which Yilgun would appreciated.He must have checked this form in old dictionary edition |
My original explanation wasn´t aimed at Yilgun, it was aimed at LIR because I don´t think it´s fair to pick at people´s use of language in a public place, when they are learning. A pm would have done the trick. Also, I have a feeling her comment about it was poking fun, as some people tend to do where Yilgun is concerned.
I´m surprised LIR didn´t notice the use of the American spelling of the noun "license" rather than the English "licence". In the English language, "license" is the verb.
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21 Jul 2008 Mon 09:26 pm |
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Quoting lady in red: Quoting peacetrain:
I would never use the word myself and yes it´s not used in England. However there are many words in the Oxford English Dictionary now that we members of a certain age would not agree with. Language is evolving all the time, probably why we don´t speak like Chaucer anymore.
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OK you gotten your point across! Have a nice day! |
That should be:
"OK you´ve gotten your point across!"
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