Hi! Alexander,   
      
   On Sat, 14 Dec 13, you wrote to me:   
      
    ak> I read that "got/gotten and forgot/forgotten" have similar   
    ak> tendencies, and "forgot" is used instead of "forgotten" more    
    ak> frequently now in the US.   
    ak> http://www.englishpage.com/irregularverbs/info.html#9   
      
   I am not surprised to hear that.  There are always variations, depending on   
   geography & experience.   
      
    ak> If you'd like to look at the original document:    
    ak> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/strace.1.html   
      
   Ah, ha.  I've just been there.  Fabulous reading... not.[sfx: finger down   
   throat]   
      
    ak> --------------------------   
    ak> STRACE(1)                  General Commands Manual STRACE(1)   
   [ ...trimmed... ]   
    ak> --------------------------   
      
    ak> PS: And anyway, IMHO, the phrase is strange. I would say it this way,   
    ak> tell me why not: [...it will ensure that you don't accidentally    
    ak> forget to include a call    
    ak> like lstat in the list.  I bet you've forgot(en)that one.]   
      
   Yes.   
      
    ak> or even:   
    ak> I bet you forgot that one. (in the past)   
      
   Yes.   
      
    ak> Why on earth he says "WOULD have forgot(en)"? Here it is an example   
    ak> of the correct phrase with "would have [pp]"   
    ak> [If I had been told of it more often in school I wouldn't have   
    ak> forgotten that rule.]   
      
   All are possibilities.  OTOH, what he (whomsoever "he" was, of the three   
   programmers) wrote probably reflected their state of mind at that (whenever)   
   point in time.  I have a feeling that the documentation author had a   
   hacking/warez background but was constrained to write a formal document, and   
   let loose with a grunt of relief with just that singular string of text.  He   
   may have also had a flash of reality, having come to imagine how much of a   
   wide audience he may be writing for, or, to; he may have been talking to   
   himself.   
      
   (Note to self: don't use STRACE. =:)   
      
   Cheers,   
   Paul.   
      
   ... I am drunk of Borg.  Resistance is floor tile.   
   --- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox   
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