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Old 30-Oct-2003, 08:03
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:? Now you seemed to agree to such a rule, quoted from The Linguistics Department of Stanford University:

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The present perfect is not compatible with adverbials denoting a specific past time.

http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/..._kiparsky.html
:o But the quotations such as this have been repudiated by us, for quite some time now. Do you now want to say you want to go back from the beginning, and agree to the "golden rule":

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NOTE: We do NOT use specific time expressions with the Present Perfect. We cannot say, for example, "I have eaten spaghetti yesterday."

http://conversa1.com/presentperfectpastsimple.htm
Also even this:

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You CANNOT use the Present Perfect with time expressions such as "yesterday," "one year ago," "last week," "when I was a chlid," "when I lived in Japan," "at that moment," "that day" or "one day."

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/presentperfect.html

Is that what you wanted to say? If not, how can we depend on a wrong rule to support our discussion?
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