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"If you've got" may not be formal "correct" English, but everyone understands it and it's used quite commonly in daily speech (and writing). I would wager that
by dantillberg 7y ago
"If you've got" may not be formal "correct" English, but everyone understands it and it's used quite commonly in daily speech (and writing). I would wager that "if you've got" may actually be preferable to "if you have," in order to engage the reader at a more comfortable, personal level.
- andrepd 7y agoThe issue is, I think, "you've got analysis" vs either "you've got an analysis" (singular) or "you've got analyses" (plural). Still, pretty minor thing to nitpick about.
- wyattpeak 7y agoYou're misparsing the sentence: "If you’ve got interesting technical analysis [or optimization] problems". "Technical analysis" is an adjective, not a noun.
- andrepd 7y agoSo I am. I was reading off the GP's (incomplete) quotation it seems.
- Blake_Emigro 7y agoFYI, not sure if english is your first language or not but this should be "If you have interesting technical analysis..." I'm not sure if English is your first language, but this should be, "if you have interesting technical analysis..." Everyone can pick apart the mistakes of others, find mine!
- anyfoo 7y agoSo correct, that I distinctively remember learning it from school books in English class in Germany.
- dkersten 7y agoGermans tend to pronounce A's in English as if they were E's ("cat" is pronounced as "k-eh-t" instead of "k-ah-t" -- which I don't really understand since A in German is pronounced as "ah"), so I'm not sure if everything you learned in English class is correct ;-)
- jambalayaman 7y agoPerhaps it is the american accent they are taught, americans would say keht. I always thought it was strange football was fussball in german, yet they'd call in soccer in english.
- dkersten 7y agoExcept the American accent doesn’t say keht — maybe there’s a slight hint (cough accent) of it, but it’s very slight, while the German way sounds rather odd, I bet even to Americans. The soccer thing is pretty funny though. :)
- anyfoo 7y agoEnglish class in Germany told me to pronounce it the "k-ah-t" way because they were primarily teaching British English, but I think a lot of exposure to US Media brings people to pronounce it "k-eh-t" (and maybe overdoing it in trying to do so). That's another thing I distinctively remember from English class in Germany, being taught the British pronunciation that, at that young age, was much less familiar to me than American pronunciation, and some slight confusion around that.
- dkersten 7y agoDefinitely overdoing it! :) I’m a native (non-American) English speaker and the American pronunciation, to me, doesn’t sound like keht at all. (German was technically my first language, although English became my main language at an early age, so I’m quite used to German accents, so it’s definitely not caused by the native accents imho) I once (when I was ~15 or so) had an argument with a kid who simply would not believe me that the letters C-A-T aren’t pronounced keht
- samatman 7y agoNot only that, but in speech, the 've is often dropped entirely, like "Hey if you got a few more minutes can I ask another question?" I wouldn't write this, but I would absolutely say it, and it doesn't carry the rough affect of something like ain't.
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoFWIW "you've got" seems very US American to me (native en-gb).