It's painful to even entitle a blog entry with the word "gotten." That's a word that I think is just so ugly. It's used in place of the proper verb that the speaker or writer hasn't bothered to learn or use. There's an ad I hear on the radio every once in awhile that uses it, saying, "Thousands of people have gotten great value from these tapes, and you can, too." It would be so much better to use "found" or "received" in place of gotten, or just use an entirely different construction such as, "Thousands of people have benefited from these tapes...."
The real irony of that particular ad is that it is for tapes designed to enhance your vocabulary.
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