I have been taught, but now do not believe, that it is correct to use 'shall' in the
first person and 'will' in the second and third persons for the
simple form of the
future tense, and
vice versa for the
emphatic form. This is an ideal example of picky grammarian rules. I now endorse the
Swedish usage, whereby 'shall' (
skall) indicates an essentially inevitable event, 'will' (
vill) indicates an intention, and neither is the standard means of expressing the
future.
(
BTW, the sense of the English
will is better expressed in Swedish by 'borde' - 'vill' being used strictly to indicate intention or desire. Thanks to
bigmouth_strikes for the advice.)