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From: alexander koryagin
Hi, Paul Quinn!
I read your message from 13.12.2013 20:10
about slang.
MD>> I've encountered such a phrase: "Betchya woulda forgot that
MD>> one".
PQ> Spoken by an Englishman or Australian?
MD>> Do I understand it correctly that it means "I bet you would
MD>> forget that one"?
PQ> Very close, Michael. It's more likey "I bet you would have
PQ> forgotten that one". (The "a" attached to the word "would" is
PQ> a clue, as it gives the short sound of the word "have", and,
PQ> therefore the tense.)
I read that "got/gotten and forgot/forgotten" have similar tendencies,
and "forgot" is used instead of "forgotten" more frequently now in the US.
http://www.englishpage.com/irregularverbs/info.html#9
If you'd like to look at the original document:
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/strace.1.html
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STRACE(1) General Commands Manual STRACE(1)
NAME top
strace - trace system calls and signals
SYNOPSIS
...
DESCRIPTION
...
OPTIONS
...
-e trace=file
Trace all system calls which take a file name as
an argument. You can think of this as an
abbreviation for
-e trace=open,stat,chmod,unlink,... which is
useful to seeing what files the process is
referencing. Furthermore, using the abbreviation
will ensure that you don't accidentally forget to
include a call like lstat in the list. Betchya
woulda forgot that one.
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PS: And anyway, IMHO, the phrase is strange. I would say it this way,
tell me why not:
[...it will ensure that you don't accidentally forget to include a call
like lstat in the list. I bet you've forgot(en)that one.]
or even:
I bet you forgot that one. (in the past)
Why on earth he says "WOULD have forgot(en)"? Here it is an example of
the correct phrase with "would have [pp]"
[If I had been told of it more often in school I wouldn't have forgotten
that rule.]
Bye, Paul!
Alexander Koryagin
fido7.english-tutor 2013
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