@sammydog01 honestly this question usually gets met with a lot more contention when I have it in real life so I’m surprised (almost) everyone was on the and page and so chill about it.
I experienced the confusion something like this can create last night. We had people show up to clean the hood vents. Management knew about it but thought it was going to be next Sunday and not yesterday. Therefore no mention was made to the employees (myself included) who were going to be working.
Over 40 years I’ve been having this argument with my wife. Early in our high school dating I asked her to reserve “next Saturday” to join me at a family event. Next Saturday. Not the Saturday after the next Saturday. The next Saturday. She scheduled over the event and we had our first argument. So, based on the definition of the word next, in our present example, it’s the red. Clearly. Unequivocally. Except when my wife says it. Because she is never wrong. Next question?
okay, here’s one my HS band Director used occasionally, that I could never remember what he meant:
let’s say we were marching in the homecoming parade.
he would tell us to report back to the band room at “a quarter OF 5”
to this day i don’t know if that’s 4:45(Quarter 'til 5), or, 5:15(Quarter after 5)…
and he only used that terminology for one certain event each year, so i never really got it hammered into me what it meant… ( I always showed up @4:45 just in case)
I’d say the 15th-16th.
This weekend = red
Next weekend = green
The only time “next weekend” would mean the red days to me is if today were 11/26-12/2.
Green.
If s/he meant the days in red, s/he would have called it “this weekend”.
Seems this has been answered. This thread can be locked.
Green
Did we give you the answer you wanted or are you in trouble with someone?
@sammydog01 honestly this question usually gets met with a lot more contention when I have it in real life so I’m surprised (almost) everyone was on the and page and so chill about it.
It’s the weekend after this weekend and it never comes, because it’s always next weekend. Kind of like phantom ground hog day.
@cranky1950 Do you mean like “tomorrow”?
Because when it gets here, it isn’t “tomorrow” anymore, it is “today”.
@mike808 Nooooo today is not tomorrow
@cranky1950 @mike808
Red days
@CaptAmehrican But when is this weekend?
@CaptAmehrican @sammydog01 it was last weekend of course.
Green days, 100%.
But I think it gets trickier if the question is asked on a Monday, when “this weekend” more likely refers to the weekend prior.
Last weekend = previous Sat/Sun
This weekend = upcoming OR current Sat/Sun
Next weekend = Sat/Sun after this weekend
Green, red is this weekend.
Agreed, next weekend is green.
When is “weekend after next”?
I believe it’s also the green dates.
I experienced the confusion something like this can create last night. We had people show up to clean the hood vents. Management knew about it but thought it was going to be next Sunday and not yesterday. Therefore no mention was made to the employees (myself included) who were going to be working.
Over 40 years I’ve been having this argument with my wife. Early in our high school dating I asked her to reserve “next Saturday” to join me at a family event. Next Saturday. Not the Saturday after the next Saturday. The next Saturday. She scheduled over the event and we had our first argument. So, based on the definition of the word next, in our present example, it’s the red. Clearly. Unequivocally. Except when my wife says it. Because she is never wrong. Next question?
@Frcal You should have said ‘this Saturday.’ You may have never argued about anything ever.
Green
okay, here’s one my HS band Director used occasionally, that I could never remember what he meant:
let’s say we were marching in the homecoming parade.
he would tell us to report back to the band room at “a quarter OF 5”
to this day i don’t know if that’s 4:45(Quarter 'til 5), or, 5:15(Quarter after 5)…
and he only used that terminology for one certain event each year, so i never really got it hammered into me what it meant… ( I always showed up @4:45 just in case)
@earlyre I’d say 5:15 since a quarter of the 5 o’clock hour has been used up, but I also think you did the right thing to show up at the earlier time
@earlyre quarter of = quarter til
Red. It is both this weekend and the next weekend.
Why do you ask?
Did your spouse mention it is your anniversary next weekend?
@mike808 Yes. Yes. Yes. Why is this so hard for everyone else?
Green. If you are referring to the red days they you would say this weekend.
In the example above, the red is both this weekend and next weekend.
The correct way for this to go, every time, is:
“I will do that next weekend.”
“Do you mean this upcoming weekend, or the weekend after that?”
“The weekend after that.”
“Ok, thanks!”
@dave It’s never next weekend.