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)?

  • tiredofsametab@kbin.run
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    8 months ago

    I would immediately ask. As others have mentioned, “this Saturday” would mean the 4th in your example, but next is too ambiguous; the 4th is the next Saturday on the calendar.

    This same thing can happen outside of English as well.

    You can also look up “half five”. Depending upon your culture, it means 5:30 (half PAST five) or 4:30 (halfway UNTIL five in the hour before).