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Verb: I "injured" my knee.
Adverb: I never recovered from my knee "injury".
In the latter it can be construed to include a "flare up" , structural damage, trauma, etc.
No that's confusing.
First TG did recover, but apparently he has issues that act up.
Second people in this conversation are taking it as the first meaning anyway, and that's not what happened. Erasing careful distinctions does not help that.
Third if you have prior surgery the injury is in the past. Surgical knees however can develop conditions that can act up. Gurley does not have a 5 year long "injury."
Someone who was being careful would approach the doctor and say "my old injury repaired knee is acting up."
That makes sense. It would NOT makes sense to say that meant you "have an injury" (implying it happened recently.)
But that IS what MJD is saying. He is saying that TG directly injured his knee (from an impact) in game one. He MEANS your meaning #1, which is not accurate for what happened with TG.
If you just bought a car, you could say "hey I bought a car." And I would go cool, what kind.
If you bought a car 5 years ago you would not say "hey I bought a car." You might say something like "remember that car I bought 5 years ago." Which does not mean I just bought a car.
It doesn't help confusion to add more confusion.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/10/2019 08:26AM by zn.