>> 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.

Yep, even Google can't do simple sentences from German to English, they 
always come out like "Tomorrow I go to England", missing the "will".

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