scott <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:
> > (Well, *technically* speaking there is a kind of future tense, but it's
> > a bit awkward and seldom used. Usually there's no need, though. The 
> > present
> > tense doubles for future tense in most sentences, the actual tense being
> > implied by the context or the meaning of the surrounding words.. It's
> > surprisingly unambiguous.

> Similar in German, it seems to me that the present tense is used for 
> actually doing something at that moment, that you do something in general, 
> or that you are going to do something in the future.  As you say, it just 
> depends on the context.

  Of course it makes the job of computer translation programs a real
nightmare, because how eg. a Finnish verb should be translated to English
depends on the context and the meaning of the sentence.

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                                                          - Warp

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