gotta!!

explain this please :
gotta be yourself.

It means: "You have to be yourself"

Right. At least in North American English "gotta" is a very common spoken-language form of "got to."

"I('ve) gotta go" = "I've got to go" = "I have to go"

If someone is saying "gotta be yourself," the preceding "you've" is implied while not present in the surface form.

And the meaning is that you should be actung naturally and not trying to be something you're not.

actung should be acting

thank you Tiffany, Kirk and ED.

No problem :)

Ditto :)

Kirk,

I just posted the list of names that I posted under in the thread where I made the apology and the thread suddenly disappeared. Where did it go?

Anyway, here's the list of names again:

Al
Joe
Bill
Richard
Robert
RFK
Bill from England
Buster

Thank you, SpaceFlight. Did you ever post under "Don" on this forum?

Yes, but that was before my last apology. In other words, that was several months ago.

What does "ditto" mean? thanks

<<Yes, but that was before my last apology. In other words, that was several months ago.>>

Ok, well I guess that'll do, then. If that's the complete list, then thank you for your honesty.

<<What does "ditto" mean? thanks>>

"Ditto" means "the same," but in the sense of "the same as what the previous person said" or "as mentioned above."

Ditto! Hehehe!

The first time I heard that word was in the movie Ghost (yeah, my apologies, I was just a kid... but wait! Was it that one??).

I was like, "what the heck???" So I had to rewind the movie and pay more attention to it. Then I was, "gotcha!!"

Nowadays I don't hear that word... is it still used somewhere??

I have never heard about this!!! Where exactly this word is used?