Re: verb gender

Peter T. Daniels wrote:

'Has to have'? You talk like dat?

Nothing wrong with that. Quite different from "must have been." 

Yes... when would someone use something with 'got'?

I think he thinks a man couldn't possibly have said "shortens out" for "shorts out," (...)

Why, for the benefit of the english-impaired?

Eh? 

Why couldn't a man say, or why should someone think a man couldn't say,
'shortens out' for 'shorts out', either as opposed to a woman?

OTOH, you managed to miss the oh so tiresome discussion on Uralic.

Oh, it was still here in all its glory.

Wise thing to do would be to kill the thread. There's nothing worthwhile there at all.
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