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Whatever your opinion on whether it's appropriately formal for a news article, the 'get-passive' [1] is definitely not 'this mysterious slang construction from
by wgjordan 10y ago
Whatever your opinion on whether it's appropriately formal for a news article, the 'get-passive' [1] is definitely not 'this mysterious slang construction from my generation', unless you're a contemporary of Mark Twain.
Here, 'get asked' conveys the additional meaning of an emphasis on the subject and a negative connotation of the action's effect on it, which 'be asked' would not convey.
[1] http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/grammar/british-grammar/passive/get-passive http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/grammar/british-grammar/p...
- salesguy222 10y agoCool link, thank you. Ultimately people are allowed to express themselves in whatever way they wish, but this particular construction feels a bit obtuse, unnecessary, and as your link noted, informal. I was speaking with a linguist from my alma mater who said that "get" is a uniquely "millenial, valley girl" construction that has been popularized in our generation through schools and tv shows for teenagers. I don't see any of us praising "like", "kind of", vocal fry, upvoice, and etc?