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| 916.1 | | JIT081::DIAMOND | Order temporarily out of personal name | Wed Sep 25 1991 08:04 | 14 |
| In some dialects, next Thursday and this Thursday are always the same day.
One can only assume that in the other dialects, they are never the same
day, and promotion occurs at midnight between Wednesday and Thursday
(when this Thursday becomes today).
Next confusion was originally imported into the English language from a
translation of signs in Tokyo subways:
����ɤ��ż� <destination>
�Ĥ����ż� <destination>
in which ����� (kondo) and �Ĥ� (tsugi) both mean next, though of course
the first one is sometimes this, and the other one is nexter.
(A visitor from Kyoto did indeed laugh when she first saw those signs.)
-- Norman Diamond
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| 916.2 | | MCIS5::WOOLNER | Photographer is fuzzy, underdeveloped and dense | Wed Sep 25 1991 17:05 | 8 |
| W TH F SA SU M TU W TH
Today tomorrow "a week from tomorrow"
and "this" "a week from Thursday"
and "next" "Thursday of next week"*
*I think that across the pond they also say "Thursday week"
Leslie
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| 916.3 | | KAOFS::S_BROOK | | Wed Sep 25 1991 20:43 | 16 |
| This does seem to vary DRAMATICALLY, depending on where you are ...
To me ...
Next Thursday is the Thursday in the next calendar week (don't ask me if it
starts on Sunday or Monday ... take your choice!). Even if it's Friday.
This Thursday is the Thursday in the current calendar week, unless it's
Friday or Saturday, whereupon This and Next become synonymous!
Thursday Next is synonymous with Next Thursday.
Thursday Week is one week after the next occuring Thursday (including today
if it's Thursday today) ...) Thus it can be 1 - 2 weeks ahead.
Stuart
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| 916.4 | It varies too much to depend on | MINAR::BISHOP | | Wed Sep 25 1991 21:15 | 11 |
| As others have said, it varies. My system is that "this" and "next"
are the first Thursday you come to going forward in time. My wife's
system is more like that of .3.
We had some not-so-funny problems scheduling things until this got
straightened out. So I've since made it a rule to always schedule
things by date, rather than "this" and "next", just as I've made it
a rule to say "correct" or "yes" rather than "right" in conversations
about directions.
-John Bishop
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| 916.5 | "next" Thurs being, say, 9 days away... | MCIS5::WOOLNER | Photographer is fuzzy, underdeveloped and dense | Fri Sep 27 1991 06:39 | 4 |
| ... reminds me of giving directions to a preschooler. "Turn left,
Alex. No, no, your *other* left!"
Leslie
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| 916.6 | quite late but still catching up! | CALS::GELINEAU | | Tue Dec 14 1993 13:10 | 8 |
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I find that I use "this" to refer to any day during the current
(Sunday through Saturday) week. For example, today is Tuesday,
December 14. If I told someone what I did yesterday, I would
probably say, "This Monday I...." "This Thursday" refers
to December 16. "Next Thursday" refers to December 23.
--angela
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