[General] you still hear versus you'll still hear

[Flogger]

Hello,

I assume that the attack of people to bread, pasta and potato is a common practice even after his death, so why the author has used the future tense for describing the attack? why not a present simple?


The original:

A decade after his death you'll still hear people attacking bread, pasta and potatoes as the root of all rotundity.

My version:

A decade after his death you still hear people attacking bread, pasta and potatoes as the root of all rotundity.

 

[Tarheel]

"A decade after his death you'll still hear ...." is in the nature of a prediction. The other one isn't.

(The "I assume" sentence is ungrammatical.)

 

[5jj]

A decade after his death you'll still hear people attacking bread, pasta and potatoes as the root of all rotundity.

This has two possible meanings:
1. Now, ten years after his death, it is quite normal to hear people ...
2. Ten years after his recent/future death the prediction is that people ....
A decade after his death you still hear people attacking bread, pasta and potatoes as the root of all rotundity.

This has one meaning:
Now, ten years after his death, the situation is that people ...

 

[emsr2d2]

Please provide the source and author of the original sentence.

 

[Flogger]

Please provide the source and author of the original sentence.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22145709

 

[emsr2d2]

Thank you. Please remember to provide the source in post #1 in future.