Let’s imagine it’s currently Wednesday the 1st. Does “next Saturday” mean Saturday the 4th (the next Saturday to occur) or Saturday the 11th (the Saturday of next week)?

  • Otter@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    Oh yes, I guess I should add more words to the examples

    • “Next Saturday I will go to the movies”
    • “This Saturday I will go to the movies”

    “this” feels more appropriate

    • “Next Sunday I will go to the movies”
    • “This Sunday I will go to the movies”

    “next” feels more appropriate

    Even with the “coming” to clarify, it feels more natural to associate “this” with items that are in this week (Sunday to Saturday) and “next” with items that start on the following week’s Sunday

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        8 months ago

        In this context, a week is 7 days starting with the day you’re on. So if its a Wednesday, this week starts on that day and goes through Tuesday. On Thursday, this week becomes Thursday through Wednesday. Any day in “this week” would be “this $day”. After the last day of “this week”, we start next week and the days in that week are “next Saturday” for example.