Why did they choose to use present perfect in the following sentence?
Some people seem to think they are giving everything away by showing people what they are going to say "before they have said it"

I think they should use " before they would say it".Right or wrong?

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Why did they choose to use present perfect in the following sentence?
 Some people seem to think they are giving everything away by showing people what they are going to say "before they have said it"

I think they should use " before they would say it".Right or wrong?

Answer

Most languages have idiomatic ways of being expressed that may sound strange to a foreigner (I'm not a native English speaker). To me the sentence is OK; the way it is constructed just enhances the immediacy of what's being said. I would even write "before they just have said it"

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Before they would say it is correct.

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