• TheFonz@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    You’re inferring the start point for the perfect continuous and assigning Oct 7; I’m assigning the start point to be the overall conflict in a broader context. I’m being charitable. I might be wrong, but I can’t read OPs mind so I’m being charitable.

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      7 months ago

      In that case, they would have used the present simple, “Hamas don’t take hostages”, but they didn’t.

      I think you simply misunderstood the original statement.

      • TheFonz@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        I could be wrong. I’m happy to take the L. Not a hill I want to die on.