Do you think haven't having been to the bank, she had no money is incorrect? I'm wondering if this might be a regionalism, because it's certainly a construction I've heard before, albeit a bit clumsily used here.
Where is that a regionalism? That's fascinatingly weird. I've never heard that before, and I've been traveling around a bunch of the U.S. in recent years. I've also never heard it from an ESL speaker, although I won't claim my encounters (although highly varied) are exhaustive.
Just checked google: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22haven't+having+been%22 and I find *two* separate uses, out of 7 hits. (The others are either repeats of the same sentence, or broken across two sentences.)
Are you mishearing something, or is this something that people can't bring themselves to write, even if they say it? Or are you hearing it as something they don't think they're saying?
All I know is a fast google search doesn't show people using it, at least in the specific phrasing ("haven't having been") that you just gave. http://www.google.com/search?q=%22haven't+having+had%22 gives only ... three, I think. One from near Stow, Massachusetts.
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Where is that a regionalism? That's fascinatingly weird. I've never heard that before, and I've been traveling around a bunch of the U.S. in recent years. I've also never heard it from an ESL speaker, although I won't claim my encounters (although highly varied) are exhaustive.
Just checked google: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22haven't+having+been%22 and I find *two* separate uses, out of 7 hits. (The others are either repeats of the same sentence, or broken across two sentences.)
Are you mishearing something, or is this something that people can't bring themselves to write, even if they say it? Or are you hearing it as something they don't think they're saying?
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