Re: [tied] English.

> AmE tends to drop 'have' before 'got'. A simple 'got' usually means
> 'have obtained', 'do enjoy the use of'. I got rhythm

Alas, I am not a native speaker of AmE, so I need confirmation of what you
have suggested. Would AmE speakers hear phrases like this as marked for a
particular register of AmE, or is it actually what might be called standard
AmE? I'd have guessed the first!

> Another grammatical quirk is my observation that 'I insist that ...'
> is not subjunctive but probably a sort of optative; I'm suggesting
> that 'I wish, I hope' constructions can be expressed negatively in
> English.

Expand please.

Peter