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I'm a bit skeptical. The lines between what makes a language "strong future-time-reference" and "weak future-time-reference" aren't clear cut. All languages hav
by lukevdp 15y ago
I'm a bit skeptical. The lines between what makes a language "strong future-time-reference" and "weak future-time-reference" aren't clear cut. All languages have ways of separating future from present. Choosing a slightly different way of categorising languages makes the correlation with savings dissapear.
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