[Ads-l] to (have) got this

[Dan Goncharoff]

I have this.
I don't have this.

I got this.
I don't got this.

DanG

On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 10:44 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> > On Jan 24, 2018, at 10:17 PM, Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >
> > Isn’t that normal negation for “(have) got”?
> >
> > I gotta go -> I don’t gotta go
> >
> > Nevertheless, when comparing “I got this” and “I have this”, the former
> seems to have idiomatic status separate from the latter.
> >
> > BB
>
> I could imagine saying (present tense) “I got this”, but the negative
> counterpart for me could only be “I haven’t got this”, not “I don’t got
> this”; it’s still basically “I’ve got” with the ‘ve suppressed when the
> “got” immediately follows.  (Of course if “got” is past tense in “I got
> it", the negation would be “I didn’t get it”, but that’s a different
> verb/use.)
>
> LH
> >
> >> On 24 Jan 2018, at 18:58, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
> >>
> >> Interesting behavior under negation.  From last night’s season premiere
> of “The Detour”, Nate (Jason Jones) and his wife Robin (Natalie Zea) and
> their kids are on the run and assuming new identities in a small town in
> Alaska. Nate, who is pretending to be a roller coaster expert (don’t ask),
> is called on to figure out which is the correct wire to splice out of a
> messy box filled with different colored wires to stop an out of control
> Ferris wheel with kids on board.
> >>
> >> Local guy with red beard and ponytail, opening control box to reveal
> dozens of multicolored interlacing wires: “Oh…That is a big old mess of
> crap in there, isn’t it?"
> >> Nate: "Oh shit, it could be any of them.”
> >> Red beard, handing Jones wire-cutters: “Good luck, man."
> >> Robin: “No, you got this.”
> >> Nate: “I don’t got this.”
> >>
> >> LH
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Jan 24, 2018, at 8:58 AM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Urban Dictionary entry for "I got this" from 2006:
> >>>
> >>> ----
> >>> https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=I%20got%20this
> >>> I got this
> >>> An expression that's short for:
> >>> 1. I got this covered.
> >>> 2. I got this handled.
> >>> 3. I got this under control.
> >>> WORKER: I can't talk to that guy. He feels I'm all game.
> >>> TEAM LEADER: Don't worry. I got this.
> >>> ----
> >>>
> >>> The only dictionary I see that treats the expression explicitly is the
> >>> Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary, but only with "you" as the
> subject:
> >>>
> >>> ----
> >>> https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/you-
> you-ve-got-this
> >>> _you/you've got this_
> >>> mainly US informal
> >>> used to tell someone that you believe they can or will succeed in
> dealing
> >>> with something:
> >>> "I know you can lose that weight! You got this!"
> >>> ----
> >>>
> >>> --bgz
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 7:38 AM, Jonathan Lighter <
> wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I began noticing this about ten years ago. FWIW.
> >>>>
> >>>> JL
> >>>>
> >>>> On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 10:47 PM, Barretts Mail <
> mail.barretts at gmail.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> A quick glance at Wiktionary, the English Oxford Living Languages
> and the
> >>>>> HDAS doesn’t yield this expression. It means “will handle this
> >>>>> challenge/problem right now."
> >>>>>
> >>>>> With the third person plural and the ass pronouns, I think the ’s of
> >>>>> “have” is obligatory, though I’m probably wrong:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> s/he’s got this
> >>>>> my ass/your ass, etc. ’s got this
> >>>>>
> >>>>> With the other persons, I think “have” is skipped:
> >>>>> I/you/we/you guys/they got this
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The OLL does have, under “get”:
> >>>>> Succeed in attaining, achieving, or experiencing; obtain.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ‘I need all the sleep I can get’
> >>>>> ‘he got a teaching job in California’
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Both Wiktionary and OLL (the latter cited here) have:
> >>>>> Respond to a ring of (a telephone or doorbell)
> >>>>>
> >>>>
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