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Moon7296 Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary
Gots? => We gots to get those Benjamins
Benjamins
Benjamins are 100 dollar bills
the reason people call them Benjamins is because the face on the bill is of Benjamin Franklin who was a publisher, a philosopher, a scientist, and the first major American inventor.
We gots to get those Benjamins
Q) What is "gots" in the above sentence?
Benjamins are 100 dollar bills
the reason people call them Benjamins is because the face on the bill is of Benjamin Franklin who was a publisher, a philosopher, a scientist, and the first major American inventor.
We gots to get those Benjamins
Q) What is "gots" in the above sentence?
Top answer
I did not find this even in oxford dictionary. there was only got.
- I did not find this even in oxford dictionary.
- there was only got.
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I did not find this even in oxford dictionary. there was only got.
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It is an attempt to render African American Vernacular English, a sort of creole that is the version of English spoken by many black people in the US. That is how "got" is conjugated in the first person plural in that creole. I am not familiar enough with it to say whether there aren't other semantic factors at work there, producing what sounds to a speaker of standard English like an illiterate u
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