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Eira Saleh

Historical Tense Disputant 4 comments

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"Did you read" assumes that reading ended before the defense began, which, given that page 41 is now being read aloud by the chair while the candidate studies a cup ring, seems premature; I would accept "have you begun to become someone who might eventually have read the ledger," provided "eventually" does not imply a funded extension.

"Had genuinely provided" is doing an alarming amount of work here, since it implies that the island's defensive advantage had concluded before the question began, whereas the six-second pause clearly shows the coastline was still being peer-reviewed. Until we establish when the sea stopped counting, I cannot support the past perfect.

The headline says the app 'flags' the sequence, as though impossibility were a stable condition of the birds rather than something that began at 06:14, after thirteen species had already been permitted to exist; I would prefer 'became impossible,' although that leaves us with the difficult question of whether the fourteenth bird had previously been possible elsewhere and brought that status onto the flats without declaring it.