Yes Honestly - The Complete Series 1 [DVD]

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HUW- Well, I think I’d say gently they’re totally different. You can have an overlap. I mean, I’m generally quite an anxious person, but I’m not depressed. Does that make sense? In the UK, it’s natural English to say I’ve got a car for something you possess (no matter when you acquired it) or to express that you acquired something recently. I’ve always thought of this as a Brit/US thing, and it’s strange that people aren’t aware of this. Listen to any Brit speak, and s/he will say have got much more than have. EMMA- So, we know obviously depression isn’t necessarily reactive or connected with something that you’re doing. But this is a pretty big job and you’re exposed to quite a lot. Does it actually have an impact on your mental health?

Rules DID NOT COME FIRST! Spoken language did not, nor does not, come from or originate from rules. Rules are an afterthought……simply an attempt to codify a given language after it has taken form. The only time the Rule Book can be closed and set in stone is with a dead language (or at least until we find new manuscripts and new usages of dead languages.) As languages evolve, so do rules. Imagine an English Grammar book in 500 years. I personally believe American English will evolve into some form of Spanglish that will dominate the landscape.

Yes - Honestly - The Complete Second Series

Likewise, an American will say both, but will tend to say have more than have got. Certain dialects of AmE will also use the nonstandard I got for I have, but whether this is an abomination or simply a facet of a non-prestige language is another debate. PRESENTER- You know when you’re worried about something, but then you talk to your friend who knows more about the subject than you do, and straightaway you start to feel better? That’s what we try and do every day on Newscast. Language can be used to describe reality from any number of different perspectives and the difference between I have and I have got is no more than a change of perspective on the same aspect of reality. When it comes to how to teach it, however, that’s an entirely different matter and I never did work out a satisfactory method. Some students just ‘get it’ and others, who possibly share some of Aaron’s less agile cognitive processes, just don’t get it and never will. EMMA- She says she listens to the pod because it’s helped with many of the conundrums of a disabled life. I think it would be the relentlessness of the rounds as you keep getting through and using your imagination every time. The pressure of coming up with the goods was harder than actually cooking. I loved being in the kitchen once I knew what I was doing. I must say, the time frames killed me! But I was pushing and pushing and pushing.

Have got is not a “sloppy” mash-up of two words. It has the same meaning as our have, but it is treated as an irregular verb. Americans tend to use it less and simply do not teach as the correct form in OUR dialect. Saying that it’s wrong is like telling a Brit that saying “at weekends” is incorrect (other countries do not say “on” weekends… or pronounce the letter “Z” as Americans do, for that matter). The fact is that it is not wrong — it is just not what we are used to in this hemisphere. For a non-English speaker learning English for the first time, surely it is easier / more straightforward for them learn ‘I have’ rather than ‘I have got’ (which opens up a whole complicated can of worms regarding mashed-up tenses and irregularities etc.)? Ultimately, I think it’s important to inform your students that both versions are commonly and widely used (and therefore acceptable) and that they should use whichever feels more comfortable to them. Students need to be aware that both are used – because they WILL encounter them both!Have got is present perfect, because got is (sorry Americans), the commonly used past participle of get in English English. However, sorry to disagree with everyone here, we English also sometimes use gotten as well, and the meaning is slightly divergent…

It seems that some of you are of the opinion that have got (to mean have) is just “lazy” and/or “wrong”. Furthermore, it seems that no amount of evidence to the contrary would convince you otherwise. Seriously, please stop spreading misinformation. It’s your goddamn job to teach English as it IS spoken, not as you would have it spoken. English grammar did not come down on freaking stone tablets from heaven. It’s what’s embodied in the actual speech patterns of the people who use English, nothing more. (Side note: Different speech or writing communities have different practices, and there are practical social consequences to following different standards.)

HUW- Obviously it wasn’t a great thing to say, but me being me I just thought, you’re an idiot, that’s the only way to think about it. Because most people don’t think like that. By switching on and off each element you can create all possible verb forms: I work = present – so there is no past, no negative, no modal, no perfect, no progressive and no passive, all that remains is subject and verb in the present tense (although the full form still has an auxiliary which we will need to use for past and negative forms – I do work).

At the end of the day, both have and have got are acceptable, prescriptivist snobbery notwithstanding. In my experience English learners aren’t really interested in these sorts of BrE / AmE differences (at least at the lower levels), and the exact subtleties of usage can get pretty convoluted. I would just teach them both as equally correct ways of saying the same thing, but make sure to be clear that have got can only be used in the present simple. Reply HUW- I, especially with kids who were younger at the time as well, you have responsibilities in that area. You want to sort yourself out. You want to get yourself better, because actually you don’t want to be some burden to people for whatever reason, even though it’s not your fault. So, my view was let’s sort it out. And if it means having therapy fine. If it means taking some pills fine. And in my case it worked. And I would say to people, don’t be embarrassed by it, don’t be ashamed of it, because actually if you are depressed and you’re diagnosed as having a form of depression you’ll need help to get out of it. Well, go and get the help, and don’t think twice about it. If an employer like the BBC is serious about saying we want to support people, talk about your problems, we want you to perform well in your job so anything that takes away from that we want to help with, well then I took them at their word. And in my experience bosses have been very good. I do know of other employers where people will talk a good game but actually they’re a bit freaked out by it, and I think they change their view of how somebody might be able to perform.

Companies, etc.

NIKKI- Well, we did offer the Department of Health and Social Care to come on today. They declined but did provide us with this statement, ‘Following a robust review of the available data our clinical experts advised there is currently insufficient data on the duration of protection offered by Evusheld in relation to the Omicron variant. And in line with that advice the government will not be procuring doses at this time. We are keeping the evidence under close review, and NICE have begun their appraisal of Evusheld. If they consider the treatment to be clinically and cost effective it will be made available on the NHS in the usual way’. English grammar strictly states that ‘have got’ is incorrect and rightly so: ‘have'(pres) and ‘got'(past) should never be used together or taught as a correct usage in English, regardless of its idiomatic usage.” Problem is, Aaron my dear, that the simple past tense and the past participle ARE THE SAME THING FOR A REGULAR VERB – eg. work, worked, worked and in Brit English the past participle of ‘get’ is ‘got’, just as the simple past is also ‘got’. That’s just simple ignorance of another form of the language, But when he says: Also Jamelia. The night I met Jamelia I texted my family saying ‘Jamelia’s my new best friend. Love her. Always going to have her in my life.’ I also get on so well with Wynne, he’s so funny, and Max George too. He’s someone who I’ve seen from afar over the years in the industry and we got on really well – us last five really did bond. 100% the people have made this show for me.