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I've got years of linguistics background, nothing to get over here.

The interesting thing you may or may not know is that this use of a past participle for a simple past actually has become normalized, in the languages change sense, in Russian, for one example. In English, it's usually less educated or second language acquisition speakers who make that substitution.



Yeah, so what?

English itself has been shaped by speakers of various languages in its entire history, and native dialectics do this kind of thing all the time too


Yes, of course.




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