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From: walsh@ihuxi.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Tenses and Aspects in English and its relatives
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Date: Wed, 26-Oct-83 12:36:41 EDT
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I don't know about that phrase in particular, but I asked a German
professor about expressing ideas in the future in German vs. English.
She said that English is more future-oriented and therefore future ideas
are probably more easily expressed in English than in German (she doesn't
know French). For example, in English we would say "I will go to the
store tomorrow", but in German she would say "I go to the store tomorrow".
It is possible to say "I will go to the store tomorrow" in German, but it
is not the accepted way of expressing that idea. The meaning gets across,
but perhaps not as succinctly as in English.

                                      B. Walsh