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by tom_ 164 days ago
"Got" is the usual past participle in British English. Even if you don't speak British English yourself, it does count as a valid form of the language - even if of course a barbaric, corrupted one, degenerate, practically a pidgin.
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> "Got" is the usual past participle in British English.

Had the author declared what English dialect they were using and/or critiquing, and were it British English as well, then this is a salient point indeed.