>>72121023Yes, but that wasn't your typical informal, conversational, non-technical organic English - if someone were to say a similar sentence to me in real life, in reference to a singular event that had happened in the past and cannot be repeated due to changing circumstances, I would furrow my brow in frustration due to how awkward and unnatural it sounds and assume they were from outside the Anglosphere
>>72121212And I do - unlike you, Chinaman. Which is exactly why I can tell the difference between casual English and ESL - also unlike you.
