Quote Originally Posted by joysof
Quote Originally Posted by Propp
Another guy got angry over me and said "Why do you tell her this? This is americanism!" For some reasons he considered "American English" a deteriorated and improper form of British English, so according to him, "do you have" is an oversimplification of perhaps more idiomatic, but more conventional "have you got". What do you think of this?
Do you still know this guy? I would like to befriend him.
I still know him. I'm afraid he doesn't remember this very episode but he's got a lot of another nice features. But you should befriend me first. Since we're both in Moscow (at least if what is written under your name is correct) it is not very hard to do.