Comments on: This Week? Next Week? https://www.krunk4ever.com/blog/2008/04/16/this-week-next-week/ After eliminating all other possibilities, the one remaining-no matter how unlikely-must be the truth. Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:55:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.9 By: Omega037 https://www.krunk4ever.com/blog/2008/04/16/this-week-next-week/comment-page-1/#comment-144612 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:55:27 +0000 http://www.krunk4ever.com/blog/2008/04/16/this-week-next-week/#comment-144612 It is all relative. This Monday really can be short for “This last Monday”, “This week’s Monday”, or “This coming week’s Monday”. Context clues, especially verb tense, help one determine which one it is. Next is a bit trickier, but it can mean “The next Monday from now” or “Next week’s Monday”. Once again, it is a matter of context and such. If the day is within the same week or within a few days, generally, you would say “this”.

Whenever a person would be better using “this” rather than “next”, they will. So if someone on Wednesday the 16th wants to talk about tomorrow, Thursday the 17th, they would normally say “this Thursday”. If they say “next Thursday”, they must mean the 24th, since otherwise they would use “this” instead.

]]> By: Krunk https://www.krunk4ever.com/blog/2008/04/16/this-week-next-week/comment-page-1/#comment-144497 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:38:18 +0000 http://www.krunk4ever.com/blog/2008/04/16/this-week-next-week/#comment-144497 Awesome responses and thanks for the info Ryan.

What’s interesting is that I might be actually influenced by Chinese since as the Wikipedia article states, this is how Chinese days of the week are named:

Monday = 星期一 (Week Day #1)
Tuesday = 星期二 (Week Day #2)
Wednesday = 星期三 (Week Day #3)
Thursday = 星期四 (Week Day #4)
Friday = 星期五 (Week Day #4)
Saturday = 星期六 (Week Day #6)
Sunday = 星期日/星期天 (Week Day #Sun/#Day/#Sky)

]]> By: ryan https://www.krunk4ever.com/blog/2008/04/16/this-week-next-week/comment-page-1/#comment-144481 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:14:57 +0000 http://www.krunk4ever.com/blog/2008/04/16/this-week-next-week/#comment-144481 Looks like most cultures think Monday is the first day of the week. It’s even an ISO standard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week#First_day_of_the_week

]]> By: ryan https://www.krunk4ever.com/blog/2008/04/16/this-week-next-week/comment-page-1/#comment-144480 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:12:04 +0000 http://www.krunk4ever.com/blog/2008/04/16/this-week-next-week/#comment-144480 Also, did you realize that in hispanic culture, the week officially starts on lunes (Monday) and ends on domingo (Sunday)? I believe Outlook has a setting that lets you control which one comes first on the calendar.

]]> By: ryan https://www.krunk4ever.com/blog/2008/04/16/this-week-next-week/comment-page-1/#comment-144479 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:10:41 +0000 http://www.krunk4ever.com/blog/2008/04/16/this-week-next-week/#comment-144479 While I generally agree with you, I would not use most of those phrases in practice. I have also noticed using this X / next X results in great confusion, especially with regards to Sunday. For example, Angel insists that *next* Sunday is part of *this* weekend, which is a contradiction my head cannot contain. Where I grew up no one ever got confused about this, so I think it’s possible it’s regional.

]]> By: rwaggie https://www.krunk4ever.com/blog/2008/04/16/this-week-next-week/comment-page-1/#comment-144476 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:59:19 +0000 http://www.krunk4ever.com/blog/2008/04/16/this-week-next-week/#comment-144476 I understand that “this” days are always future dates and are generally within the same week as the moment being stated, although not explicitly. I believe “this” references the next immediate day in the future and “next” to reference the first occurrence of said date AFTER the immediate occurence. For example, if today is Monday:

“We’re going bowling this Wednesday.” Refers to the immediate Wednesday within the week.

“We’re going bowling next Wednesday.” Refers to the next week’s Wednesday (So CurrentWeek+1)

If we went bowling the Satuday before (So CurrentWeek-1):

“We went bowling this PAST Saturday.”

I don’t find stating “We went bowling this Saturday,” grammtically sensical; however, I am unaware of any grammar rules stating otherwise. In this case (where I refer to an event in the subjectively recent past), I generally state “We went bowling the other day/night.”

The tricky part are days which have already passed in the current week with the next occurrence lying in the following week.

For clarification, if today is Wednesday:

“We are going bowling Monday.” This makes intuitive sense that we are going bowling the Monday coming up (which lies in CurrentWeek+1)

“We are going bowling this Monday.” (Or for clarification I sometimes state, “We are going bowling this Monday coming up.”) I interpret this the same as above since, there are no Mondays left within my current week.

“We are going bowling next Monday.” I understand this to be the next Monday following the immediate Monday. So CurrentWeek+2.

So if regional demographics are a factor in your musings, this is from the Southeast region (more specifically, LA.) And for what it’s worth, I refer to the weekend as Friday (anytime after work), Saturday, Sunday with Monday being (inappropriately) addressed as the start of the week.

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