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harriet
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 Wed, May 10 2017, 3:26 pm
Are you familiar with people using the phrase "she gets me nervous" to mean something like "she gets on my nerves"? Is the only acceptable way to use it the more common way (that she makes me worry about abc) or is the first way I described used too?
I am not asking about grammar only, I am aware that the "real" definition is the second one that I gave, I am asking if in some communities it is used the first way as well.
Thanks
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FranticFrummie
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Wed, May 10 2017, 3:30 pm
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It sounds like a regional usage, from the American southern states. My great grandma used to talk like that, and she was from Arkansas.
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LiLIsraeli
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Wed, May 10 2017, 3:32 pm
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Yes, I've definitely heard it used that way.
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FranticFrummie
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Wed, May 10 2017, 3:52 pm
| FranticFrummie wrote: | | It sounds like a regional usage, from the American southern states. My great grandma used to talk like that, and she was from Arkansas. |
I forgot to add, she was from Poland, so that makes it harder to trace. Maybe it's a Yiddish use of English? It still sounds southern to me, though.
She used "gets" instead of "makes".
It makes me nervous - it gets me nervous.
Ooh, this weather gets me so hot!
That neighbor gets me so mad, he wrecked my rose bushes.
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Maya
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Wed, May 10 2017, 4:53 pm
It's a direct translation from a Yiddish phrase.
Is this what they call Yinglish?
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MiracleMama
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Wed, May 10 2017, 5:07 pm
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I've heard it twice that I can recall. Assumed that the people who said it simply didn't have a good command of the english language.
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