Yes Honestly - The Complete Series 1 [DVD]

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Using have got when it means simple ownership is plain lazy. I’VE GOT A CAR vs. I HAVE A CAR….I HAVE A CAR is correct. We have gotten lazy and laziness becomes the norm. I’ve got a car is easier to say than I have a car. Try it, it is true. The incorrect version has been used so often that even grammarians don’t know what the correct usage is any longer. Language evolves, and it often evolves out of constantly repeating an error. “Got milk?” This question is grammatically incorrect. The question actually is Do you have milk? Have you got cheating on your mind? Wrong. Do you have cheating on your mind? Correct. This error has become so commonplace that it has become acceptable. This is sad, really. This goes to show you that anyone can change language by just repeating errors. What happened to rules? Someone has to know how to use grammar correctly, and correct grammar should be used, especially in formal communication between companies and nations. Incorrect usage makes one look really, really silly. Reply The Sandwich Challenge was a good week for me, a really good week, because it was something a bit different. Trawling the internet for ideas of cakes and how I might convert them into a sandwich. Sitting in the pub with a glass of wine in week one, trying to work out how I was going to make a lobster cake look like an ice cream. Thinking about how I would have to colour sesame seeds to look like hundreds and thousands and then discovering that after Ramadan, you can actually get such a thing! So heading off to the Asian shop to try and find them. Those were good moments. It’s rare but we use it this way, and have been doing so for quite some time. Search Shakespeare (those of you who say have got is simply wrong and for ‘idiots’, bear in mind you’re calling Shakespeare an idiot), and you will find examples of have, have got, and have gotten, conforming with the usage I have described. Reply As she had done so successfully for No, Honestly, Lynsey de Paul wrote and performed the theme music for the second series. NIKKI- If you’re going through depression and/or anxiety you’re supposed to sleep, aren’t you, you’re supposed to switch everything off.

MARK- Yeah, I’ve got a condition called pulmonary sarcoidosis, it’s an autoimmune disease, it affects my lungs and other parts of my body. I’ve had it for 12 years. When the pandemic hit we were told to go into shielding, and basically for the past, well up until November 1 when I actually got Evusheld, I paid for it privately, it’s been a case of shielding. At times I’ve been separate from my family. I spent about seven months during that living in the summer house at various times away from my family. In that original series, John Alderton and Pauline Collins had starred as husband and wife Charles and Clara Danby. Here, Donal Donnelly and Liza Goddard were husband and wife Matthew and Lily Browne. NIKKI- He is one of the most recognisable broadcasters on television, with one of the most recognisable voices, Huw Edwards has been at the BBC for almost 40 years, covering the biggest stories of our time with professionalism, warmth, and a stamina I can only dream of. In the case of the present perfect used as a possessive – this is to KATHY in particular – have is not inherently passive. A passive construction is one in which the auxiliary to be directly precedes a past participle (for example, the book WAS WRITTEN or you ARE BEATEN) have is neither a part of the verb ‘to be’ nor a past participle, ergo the only passive construction ‘have’ can be part of must be a PERFECT PASSIVE construction (with or without modals, negatives, past tenses etc.) since you can use the have to change be into been and then follow that with a past participle, for example, I have been beaten– a present perfect passive construction, however, I have beaten is only ever going to be active because there’s no part of the verb to be in the construction. Indeed Kathy, do you actually know what passive means in this context? It means that the role of subject and object are reversed. That means that the person or object that performs the verb comes after it not before (if it comes at all) and that the person or object that comes before the verb has that verb done to it. Very different from concept behind present perfect which controls the relationship between subject and verb over time, rather than the controlling whether the subject does the verb or has the verb done to it.I have 2 post graduate degrees with heavy linguistic emphasis. I teach, study and live an academic life. I am anything but lazy… It is NOT Laziness to speak with shortened, grammically incorrect words and sentences. The point is to convey understanding through oral expression…if someone asks me if I have a car, I typically say, Yeah, i gotta car. My SOLE objective being to convey the idea of my personal car ownership. Shortening a thought in verbal communication is not lazy. It is efficient, effective and time-saving. It allows for more time to advance the conversation to new topics. It allows one to sound like a “normal” human being in informal social settings rather than a high-browed, elitist, academic stiff. Or perhaps to demonstrate non-lazy, verbal communication, we should respond, “Yes, I am the owner of an automobile” Problem of have, have got solved! Reply

PAUL- Yeah, so NICE, who decide or make recommendations about which treatments the NHS should use, they met to appraise this treatment, look at the evidence that’s available, and hear from expert clinicians and patients to ultimately make a decision about whether Evusheld will be made available on the NHS. So, they met earlier this week, and hopefully will get a draft recommendation within the next couple of weeks, which will give us an indication of whether Evusheld will be made available or not, and to whom it might be available. Because it may not be made available to everyone who’s on immune suppressant medication; it might be just those who are a higher risk. It’s quite a broad category. NIKKI- It’s true, you do work like a machine. You’re not just turning up and reading other people’s words; you put in a full shift before you go on the Ten. You’re across everything. You have to be across everything; and it’s a sad world at the moment. You’ve spoken quite openly about having depression. NIKKI- Just so you know, yeah. Very tall. My head comes to his waist. No, in a mobility scooter. But sometimes when I go to hug him I land on his waist. It’s hugely embarrassing, anyway. It would be useful to know if students are penalised one way or the other for these alternative usages – because to win the game, it helps to know how to play the game! I bet this varies from place to place, examiner to examiner! HUW- One of my colleagues said to me, just after I’d kind of spoken about it first of all, ‘Oh you’re very brave doing that, you’ve got to be a bit careful about these things because the BBC doesn’t want people thinking there’s some kind of nutter reading the Ten’.

PAUL- So, Evusheld is a preventative prophylaxis treatment, so it’s two types of antibody that can fight COVID-19. And it’s designed for people who can’t get protection from vaccines so that they can have this treatment instead and it will give them protection against COVID-19.

I have a car is much more polite or well spoken and you won’t hear it too much in the UK, except in those circumstances. HUW- Honestly, I just feel that, I don’t know, I feel a bit old these days. I still love the job. And there’s a Coronation coming up; I’m not going to go before then.NIKKI- It’s Access All, the BBC’s weekly disability and mental health podcast. I’m Nikki Fox and I’m in London. HUW- Because one of the best things has been colleagues in the newsroom, especially younger colleagues, come through the pandemic, lots of them living alone in London, and they’ve actually gone through a very tough time, and quite a lot of colleagues have come up to me and said, ‘Thank you for raising it, because actually I’d never have raised it, but it’s encouraged me to raise it’. And I thought well, if I’ve done that to two or three people that’s enough. And the truth is that you’ve got to hold these employers to what they promise. If they say that they’ve got a good code in terms of mental health well then you hold them to that. No way Jon, John and Lucia! Right on Tai! We should feel remorse for the ESL students in Spain and in many other places. English grammar strictly states that have got is incorrect and rightly so: have (pres) and got (past tense) should never be used together or taught as a correct usage in English, regardless of its idiomatic usage.

No, Honestly was a comedy series about a husband and wife – struggling actor Charles and successful writer Clara Danby, the author of “Ollie the Otter” children’s stories. Have is used as a main verb for possession. It is also used as an auxiliary verb in the present perfect. Have got is present perfect, because got is (sorry Americans), the commonly used past participle of get in English English. However, sorry to disagree with everyone here, we English also sometimes use gotten as well, and the meaning is slightly divergent…

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NIKKI- Paul, I understand that there was a big meeting this week to decide what’s going to happen next. Can you tell us who was there and what the latest is? MARK- No, it’s continuing. Basically it’s every six months more or less. And certainly in countries that are using it, like America, their programmes are every six months they’re giving shots of it. Post scriptum: Why is English mispronouced in America. Again the phonetics are not derived from the look of the words. The language must be heard to be spoken. Is this a deliberate act of independence? Reply