Why do we use the Present Simple, and not the Present Continuous when talking about pain?
For example:
Why "my leg hurts" instead of "my leg is hurting"?
Doesn't a temporary pain technically meet the basic Present Continuous criteria?
Present Simple with expressing pain
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Re: Present Simple with expressing pain
Actually either is possible, but the former is often used interchangeably with the latter to denote current pain. (A similar thing applies to the verb 'feel': 'how do you feel' can be used to mean 'how are you feeling?")