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Eh, I don't call it a separate tense if it's the same exact grammar. Like, you can say future events in the present tense in English, maybe when designing a plan ("I go left, then I go straight 10 miles"). Doesn't mean it's some fancy "prophetic present tense."

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You should start a Wikipedia page for misidentified tense.

Or respond to this similar complaint on this article's Talk from 2007:

> The article describes prophetic perfect tense as "a literary technique", yet categorizes it as a grammatical tense. It seems to me that the categorization does not apply as there is not indication that "prophetic perfect" exists as a discrete tense; rather, it's a particular application of tenses described elsewhere. Any objection to removing the categorization as grammatical tense? -- Shunpiker 15:53, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

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