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It is as if this person took the adage "If you've got nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all" and turned it on its head: "If you've got something non-nice to say, say it openly." … The closest I think I've gotten with LLMs is 'disparager', but apart from being somewhat awkward, it seems that a disparager criticizes people, and not things. …

For example, let's say I'd just got an expensive LCD monitor from a raffle, but I accidentally dropped it and it broke, and I now lament its loss. … I haven't even gotten a single use out of it. I ... that monitor so much! …

Every war that we have ever had was gotten up by that class. They do all the beating of the drums. Away the rest of us go. When we leave, you know what happens. … I hope someone has the answer to these very important questions. :) Here's the whole speech by the way if someone wants to read it: https://semperfidelissociety.org/youve-got-get-mad-major-general-smedley-d-butler …

I am aware of the difference between the British and the American "get" conjugation (got-gotten). Now, I have come across the sentence "My cough has gotten worse." This makes sense for US speakers. … Is "has/have got + adjective" as a present perfect grammatically correct and used? Thanks in advance! …

For a sentence I got this book from Tom, if we simply rewrite it with passive voice, it would seem to be like This book was gotten from Tom. … But I haven't quite met such expressions as Something is gotten from somebody. Is it idiomatic to say so? …

So, is it possible to say something like "The car was had/got/gotten repaired by John"? …

Examples: Dynamic verbs; both to get and to be can be used: The alarm clock has finally gotten/been repaired. My house's roof got/was destroyed by the thunderstorm. … When we came, we saw that our lettuce had got/been eaten by that freaking beaver. Stative verbs; only to be can be used: I  was loved by a very nice girl. …

I was really surprised to hear that Francesco got his job through a social networking site. Why not "had gotten his job"? …

However, some instructors (who explain the paragraph below) say that though (1) and (2) have the same sentence structure, (2) is interpreted as the possible past (real), which means 'Picasso' could have gotten … But in reality, it was just as common that he got “colder.” …

I haven't gotten any sleep since Monday I haven't got any sleep since Monday (Are both of these sentences wrong? Should I use "I haven't slept since Monday" instead?) Thank you x …

I sometimes hear some Americans say I haven't got a response yet. … This sounds wrong to me; in American English (unlike British English) one would say I haven't gotten a response yet You would only use "have got" as in the expression "to have," e.g. …

When you want to tell someone that you understand something, you might say, "I get/got/'ve got it." But Q) Do we say "I've gotten it" or "I have it" in place of the above? … I mean, what is the main verb in "I've got it" or simply "I got it"? Is it "to get", as above, or is it "to have", as in "I have/'ve got/got a car?" …

Now, I said something about the lad's clothes and may have gotten misinterpreted. There's nothing wrong with working in farms and getting dirty. … As I got home I was still thinking about that weirdo. I was not resented, but thought to myself: "That was a great puxa-saco I met there". …

"Most of them hadn't gotten sick before." Bastard said he now wonders whether autoantibodies against interferon also increase the risk from other viruses, such as influenza. … (because having sought out much on these issue I got stumped to find out that it is being widely propagated throughout Grammar books that using such constructions is narrowed almost only to the Subjunctive …

For example, "I have got a car" means "I have a car" But again, American says "he has gotten" not "he has got", so they may say the spelling is not correct. … It should be "he has gotten hurt for 5 minutes" and "it has gotten tangled for 5 minutes"? This is VERY CONFUSING. …