Present perfect vs simple past

[Guest]

only to know how an america person would have said it.....this is my last question

[Guest]

how would you have said it?

[Yankee]

Hi "Harry"

OK, one last question

I think for the "public defender" sentence, you'd probably be most likely to hear "The court has appointed me your public defender." Even in American English.

For me that's a sentence where the only thing that's important is that it happened. And when it happened is irrelevant.

But, as I said, in American English, I also wouldn't be surprised to hear the simple past tense.

Amy

[Cisco795]

Guest, Amy has already answered that question for you.........Here, I am using my response to your thread to graphically show what she has been telling you all along and which you could resume as follows:
a.- Initiates a conversation (in Amy`s way of using present perfect tense). From there on she would use simple present.
b.-Perfect present tense brings a past ocurrence to a "recent past" as oppose to simple present which does not necesarily reflects that
idea.

God bless you Guest and merry Christmas.
Cisco.
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