English grammar

[Bob Anderson]

Today I received a popup reading "You've got basic protection". This is grammatically incorrect. "You've" is a contraction for you have. Therefore the sentence wrongly reads "you have got basic protection". The word  "got" is not required. The popup should read "you have basic protection". Microsoft is to blame for this error becoming common when they introduced the sentence "You've got mail".

-Bob

[Hermite15]

I'm stunned 

edit: now seeing that your last post was sent  two and a half years ago, good that you came back to help

[jadinolf]

Today I received a popup reading "You've got basic protection". This is grammatically incorrect. "You've" is a contraction for you have. Therefore the sentence wrongly reads "you have got basic protection". The word  "got" is not required. The popup should read "you have basic protection". Microsoft is to blame for this error becoming common when they introduced the sentence "You've got mail".

-Bob

I thought that was AOL but what do I know?

[Bob Anderson]

jadinolf: you may be right.

-Bob

[philip brampton]

Today I received a popup reading "You've got basic protection". This is grammatically incorrect. "You've" is a contraction for you have. Therefore the sentence wrongly reads "you have got basic protection". The word  "got" is not required. The popup should read "you have basic protection". Microsoft is to blame for this error becoming common when they introduced the sentence "You've got mail".

-Bob

Bob.
you have to understand that quite a lot the people who write these ?? are ignoramus.

[DavidR]

A pretty arrogant statement, when you don't know whom they might be.

The people who write them may not speak/write English as their first language, to say they are ignoramuses, is a bit rich. As has been said Americanisms are creeping in all over.

Personally I'm more concerned that my AV solution provides excellent protection than perfect grammar.

[JuninhoSlo]

A pretty arrogant statement, when you don't know whom they might be.

The people who write them may not speak/write English as their first language, to say they are ignoramuses, is a bit rich. As has been said Americanisms are creeping in all over.

Personally I'm more concerned that my AV solution provides excellent protection than perfect grammar.

+1

[MikeBCda]

I'm considered quite literate in English (it's my "native" tongue, after all), and yet like most people I sometimes have minor problems with dyslexia resulting in typos.  While both my browser and mailer are set to spell-check as I type, I generally don't bother to correct misspellings if I feel my meaning was clear.  Admittedly there are some rare cases where a single letter can totally change the meaning ... "This is not acceptable" isn't quite the same as "This is now acceptable."

And I take pretty much the same approach when reading others' posts or messages online.  Poor grammar and/or spelling only concern me if the context is such that they'd be a tip-off to the likelihood of spam or a scam.