'The future will be better tomorrow.' © Dan Quayle

[Tamara]

Hi

I remember previous discussions and explanations about the uses (and not uses :) ) of Future tenses for the future. :)
In English.

‘The future will be better tomorrow.’ © Dan Quayle
‘Tomorrow Will Be a Better Day.’

(Sorry for, perhaps, very stupid question)
Could the above phrases be reworded with Present tense without loss in meaning?
Or it’s impossible (or meaningless) task?
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[Yankee]

Hi Tamara

There are no stupid questions... but Dan Quayle is certainly known to have given his share of "not-so-clever" answers. Of all the people you could have quoted, why did you have to pick him? That's the guy who can't spell 'potato'. :lol:

I might use the simple present tense in the second sentence if, for example, I meant that I know for a fact that tomorrow is a better day to do something than today is.

Amy
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[Haihao]

Hi,

Sorry to butt in but I would like to share with you my favorite quotation, the ending of the book 'Gone With The Wind' by Margaret Mitchell:

"I'll think of it all tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back.
After all, tomorrow is another day."

haihao

[Yankee]

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That was a nice example, Haihao. :)
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[Tamara]

Hi

Thanks for the responses :)

Amy, I’m not a fan of Dan Quayle, at all :)

Just being - once again :) - impressed by all recent future-discussion (and by your ‘tomorrow is Sunday’-point), I undertook a short googling for the phrases of the type :)

If you remember, my point was that 'tomorrow is Sunday' is a standard use (in Russian too), but 'Tomorrow will be..' is sometimes necessary to express something special. 'More than' standard.

Well, let's leave Dan Quayle alone with his 'potato'-problem.

'Tomorrow comes today' :) OK, but...

Some others:

'Tomorrow Will Be Too Long' (Amazon.co.uk) :)
'Tomorrow Will Never Come'
'Tomorrow Will Come' :lol:
'Tomorrow Will Be Like Today.'
'Tomorrow will always be tomorrow.' (Hi, Haihao :) )
etc

To me, 'will' makes sense.
Not?
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