I don’t get ‘got’...

I know I’m not supposed to use ‘got’ because it’s not a very nice word. But sometimes it just fits. When you’re trying to fit words into a limited character count, every small word comes into play. What can we use instead of ‘got’? Have. Possess. Own. They’re not very funky though – you might want to say that ‘someone’s got soul’ which is much cooler than ‘someone owns soul’. Which doesn’t even make sense. I can’t even remember why ‘got’ fell out of fashion. I might...