At 06:53 PM 9/16/2007, Scott wrote:
>. . .As a DEEP SOUTH native,
>I often crack up when I read pseudo-southern dialect written by a non-native
>of the South.  I deliberately would make the precise distinction to which
>you referred in your "was married" vs. "have been married."  One British
>professor was astounded when I explained difference between "I've got to go"
>= I must go; "I'  = I have taken advantage of an opportunity. . . .

DD: As a bona fide decayed Southron gentry, I use or interpret the 
expression, "I've go to go." pronounced "I gotta go." as meaning a 
necessity to visit the necessary. Er, go to the little house behind 
the big house. I agree with your interpretation of "I've gotten to 
go" = I have taken advantage of an opportunity.

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