For fun, did you see my comment
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/24457/general-purpose-antonym-for-ago/24458#comment197066_24458hence
is so old that google could not even translate it correctly in french
when I tried ;)


2013/5/4 Colin Putney <colin at wiresong.com>

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> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> "hence" is equally meaningful as "fromNow", but more old-world
>> sounding.  I think "ago" and "fromNow" are more compatible with each
>> other in terms of modern language use.
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> No!
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> "Hence" is the proper the proper and perfectly cromulent antonym for
> "ago." The fact that many people use circumlocutions to compensate for a
> deficient vocabulary does not mitigate this truth.
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> Colin
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