Timeline for Historical Present speaking about the Future
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| Jul 7, 2023 at 11:52 | vote | accept | SovereignSun | ||
| Jun 5, 2023 at 19:28 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | It is not very idiomatic to use 'the year...' before a year in normal conversation, especially if it is not very far away in the past or future. I might say 'I wonder if we will still speak English in the year 3000'. If I say 'next year is twenty twenty-four' everybody knows I am talking about a year (because I said 'next year'). I don't need to say or write 'year' twice. | |
| Jun 4, 2023 at 20:45 | comment | added | Colin Fine | The non-past tense (which is often misleadingly referred to as the "present" tense) can certainly refer to the future, usually with some explicit time reference. | |
| Jun 4, 2023 at 14:33 | answer | added | James K | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 4, 2023 at 11:49 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I don't think your example is "historical present" anyway. But it's entirely a stylistic choice today whether you say Next year is 2024 OR Next year will be 2024. | |
| Jun 4, 2023 at 11:27 | history | asked | SovereignSun | CC BY-SA 4.0 |