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
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ESL teacher, translator, and a native speaker of American English