That's news to me.Which dialect of American English would that be?
You know, it's hard to hear the present perfect sometimes, especially when it's contracted. That is, when have is reduced to 've and has reduced to 's:
I've finished it is pronounced I[f] finished it.
She's sent the letter is pronounced She[s] sent the letter.
Contracted have (spelled <'ve>, phonetically [f]) is not heard separately from <f> of finished, and contracted has (spelled <'s>, phonetically [s]) is not heard separately from <s> of sent. In those examples, contraction makes it appear as if present perfect verbs have merged to simple past verb.
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