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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Learn some Asian languages, like Chinese. They don't have tenses. You just add something like "yesterday" or "tomorrow", they also have a simple word that you can add to a sentence to indicate that everything happened in the past. Europeans have build up these hugely complicated grammatical structures that are not really necessary for understanding. You only start to realize that once you step outside of that circle.
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Yes, but there are too many nuances you can't express with "yesterday" or "tomorrow". You can't sweep half a dozen tenses into "tomorrow" and another half into "yesterday" and expect to have the same meaningful sentence; it'll still convey what you want to say, but part of it will be lost.