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11-13-2009, 07:12 PM
Raistlin

Didn't I see you mention that you "could care less" about something when you meant the exact opposite? Learn to grammar yourself, hypocrite!
11-13-2009, 07:25 PM
Flying Mullet

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Originally Posted by Noctiluca

Let's say my woman refuses to cook anymore. I beat her, obviously, and the next day she has the gall to run away. I then must hang my head out the window, shake my fist, and yell "I'll get you yet!" Sure, I have words like vengeance at my disposal, but this is a fist shake situation.

Well, once I kill her I have to keep it even! Since I previously said get, now I must say "At long last, I got her!" It's informal but must be done.

No, you'd say, "At long last, I killed her!" :p

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Originally Posted by Raistlin

Didn't I see you mention that you "could care less" about something when you meant the exact opposite? Learn to grammar yourself, hypocrite!

I'll hypocrite you, grammar! :smash:
11-13-2009, 07:27 PM
rubah

I'm fixing to get Mulley.
11-13-2009, 07:36 PM
Flying Mullet

I'm fixin' to get got. :cry:
11-13-2009, 09:31 PM
Agent Proto

The word "got" has many uses, hence why a lot of people tend to overuse the word in their sentences. "But why?" you may ask. Rather simply, because it's easy to remember, and people are lazy to use another word when "got" can be used in place.

You sir have provided several great examples of why people would use the word "got" instead of other words, yet you still deem the word an "abomination." Exactly, why is it one? Because of it's many uses? Perhaps so. Let's determine that the word "got" is now banned, would people find other ways to express how to say what they want without it? Of course they can, they just need to learn how to. Once they've got (Haha, did you see what I did there, Mullet?) the idea that "got" is appropriate, there's no way you can't get people to stop using the word when another word can be use.
11-13-2009, 10:31 PM
LunarWeaver

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flying Mullet

Quote:

Originally Posted by Noctiluca

Let's say my woman refuses to cook anymore. I beat her, obviously, and the next day she has the gall to run away. I then must hang my head out the window, shake my fist, and yell "I'll get you yet!" Sure, I have words like vengeance at my disposal, but this is a fist shake situation.

Well, once I kill her I have to keep it even! Since I previously said get, now I must say "At long last, I got her!" It's informal but must be done.

No, you'd say, "At long last, I killed her!" :p

I can't say killed! That's all appropriate and such :colbert: You don't understand villains at all.
11-13-2009, 10:57 PM
Tavrobel

That girl's got a nice ass.

YOU HEARD ME
11-14-2009, 12:28 AM
NorthernChaosGod

I got five on it!
11-14-2009, 12:53 AM
Mogi

Under only specific extraneous circumstances do you end a sentence in a preposition, and even in those circumstances is it possible to avoid the mistake.

I contributed~
:bounce:
11-14-2009, 03:10 AM
Barraza

Surely there is a time and a place for such a small yet significant word.

Please give me a sentence where I might use it without offending you, Flying Mullet.
11-14-2009, 03:18 AM
rubah

Mullet begot his one and only son after a hard night's drinking.
11-14-2009, 05:18 AM
Anaralia
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Originally Posted by Flying Mullet

I got the new copy of Final Fantasy.
I got the Swine Flu.
I've got a bad cough.
I'm honestly confused. These are all correct, grammatically, aren't they? They may be lazy and could be rephrased with better words, but aren't they correct, regardless? I don't always feel like saying "I OBTAINED the flu last year and it blew chunks."
11-14-2009, 05:41 AM
~*~Celes~*~

i love you too mulley
11-14-2009, 06:04 AM
Rase

I got bored in grammar class.
11-14-2009, 06:34 AM
Dignified Pauper

I got what Mullet is trying to say, but I don't think I got why I should care.

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