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• TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well the word “before” doesn’t need to implicit. The “had” in I’d is more than enough past for the sentence to make sense

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, that simply indicated that they had not done the thing, i.e. at all.

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    • psud@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      i.e. at all before that time

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      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No, they never said “before.”

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• name_NULL111653@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In the English language, an action I “had done” is before an action I “did.” It’s a grammatical case, not an inference.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He stated that he had not done it, not that he had not done it before.

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    • saigot@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No English speaker would say it life that. You’d say “doing something I never even did”

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      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No English speaker would say it like you said.

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