The first language about which I was told that it had no future tense
was Japanese. And then, in my childhood, I thought, wow, such an
unusual language. Then, a couple of years ago, I heard a joke that in
Estonian one has no sex and no future (meaning grammatical gender and
future tense). And today I suddenly discovered that there is a whole
bunch of languages with only two tenses, including... English. Nobody
told me at school, university or any kind of courses that, well, in
Russian we have separate inflexion form for future tense, e.g.
'открою' ('will discover'), but in English, they simply haven't. One
can't inflect the verb 'discover' in any way to get the 'will
discover' form. So, in English, there is no future tense in the
pedantically strict sense. Similarly to Japanse, Estonian, and
German, actually.
