On Sun, 18 Nov 2018 13:24:51 +0100
Alessandro Selli <alessandroselli@???> wrote:

> On 18/11/18 at 10:46, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
>
> > KatolaZ - 18.11.18, 09:36:
> >> This is not gonna happen, given for instance the way our presence
> >> in debian-devel has been "cheered up" (with aggressive posts and
> >> personal
> > The most important aspect here is: "has been". Its in the past
> > already and it does not determine the future.
>
>
>   Maybe not.  If my English Grammar is still worth the schoolbook
> paper it was printed on, "has been" is the Present Continuous Tense,
> that is used "to express the idea that something is happening now, at
> this very moment. It can also be used to show that something is not
> happening now."
>
>   So, the main use is for "something is happening now", sometimes for
> "something [that] is not happening now."
>

Nope, your schoolbook paper wasn't worth the paper it was written on ;-)

'has been' denotes something that has happened e.g 'That guy is an has
been' or 'the book has been found'.

Your 'schoolbook' is probably where the misuse of 'since' comes from
as well.

Rowland