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''Next'' friday - when is it?
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It's not incorrect,
Tis ..
using "next Friday" to mean the same thing as "this Friday" or just "Friday" is pointless and confusing.
It's not pointless, as if said to you on Sunday .. "I'm going to see Lily Allen 'This Tueday' you would know what I meant, without doubt.
If I just said 'Tuesday' .. you would say "This Tuesday?".
So I essentially saved us both 10 precious seconds of our lives
Either you should use it to mean the Friday of next week or you shouldn't use it at all and should use one of the many other ways to indicate the coming Friday.
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I wouldn't say thatOutlawPete wrote: »Tis ..
It's not pointless, as if said to you on Sunday .. "I'm going to see Lily Allen 'This Tueday' you would know what I meant, without doubt.
If I just said 'Tuesday' .. you would say "This Tuesday?".
So I essentially saved us both 10 precious seconds of our lives
If someone said to me "I'm going to see Lilly Allen Tuesday" I would instantly know that they were referring to the coming Tuesday because if it was any other Tuesday they would have added a qualifier, such as they might say "I'm going to see Lilly Allen next Tuesday"
You could technically say that next Tuesday refers to the coming Tuesday but then the person could just say "Tuesday" and that makes the addition of the word next pointless. As far as I'm concerned if someone says next Tuesday it's to differentiate it from this Tuesday
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I wouldn't say that
If someone said to me "I'm going to see Lilly Allen Tuesday" I would instantly know that they were referring to the coming Tuesday because if it was any other Tuesday they would have added a qualifier, such as they might say "I'm going to see Lilly Allen next Tuesday"
You could technically say that next Tuesday refers to the coming Tuesday but then the person could just say "Tuesday" and that makes the addition of the word next pointless. As far as I'm concerned if someone says next Tuesday it's to differentiate it from the coming Tuesday
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But to make it even more confusing
If that conversation takes place on a Wednesday then the Tuesday of next week is both the coming Tuesday AND next Tuesday because it is both the nearest Tuesday and the Tuesday of next week. The phrase "this Tuesday" is meaningless on Wednesday because it's in the past.0 -
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/thread :pac:
/drags Sam back
Hang on there a minute.I might say "I'm going to see Lilly Allen next Tuesday"
If you said that to someone last Sunday (the one just gone) then they would say "Next Tuesday? Do you mean 'this Tuesday' or 'Tuesday week'??
Cause it means differemt things to different people despite it being grammatically incorrectAs far as I'm concerned if someone says next Tuesday it's to differentiate it from the coming Tuesday
As far as YOUR concerned but not everyone thinks that. It's 50/50 I would say.
Much better not to use the word 'Next' refering to 'Days' as it has an ambiguous meaning.
/thread end
Now, which comes first - the Chicken or the Egg??
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I agree. Best to avoid it altogether. I think we should lobby the mods to ban anyone who uses the term from now on :pac:OutlawPete wrote: »/drags Sam back
Hang on there a minute.
If you said that to someone last Sunday (the one just gone) then they would say "Next Tuesday? Do you mean 'this Tuesday' or 'Tuesday week'??
Cause it means differemt things to different people despite it being grammatically incorrect
As far as YOUR concerned but not everyone thinks that. It's 50/50 I would say.
Much better not to use the word 'Next' as it has an ambiguous meaning.
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OutlawPete wrote: »Now, which comes first - the Chicken or the Egg??
I don't know why this is considered a conundrum. Chickens evolved from other egg laying birds. The first chicken was conceived by two animals that were very similar to but not quite chickens and it was hatched from an egg. the egg came first.
See the following diagram:
http://www.jonco48.com/blog/chicken_20or_20egg.gif0 -
OutlawPete wrote: »/drags Sam back
Now, which comes first - the Chicken or the Egg??
The Egg - Eggs were around long before Chickens, or another way, something that wasn't a chicken, laid an egg from which hatched what we know today as a chicken.
Why do people have to over complicate simple things :rolleyes:0 -
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OutlawPete wrote: »Well, whatever laid that Egg, that the first Chicken came from .. came from an Egg itself, right?
S, what laid that Egg?
An animal that was very very similar to a chicken but slightly less similar to a chicken than the animal that laid the egg that produced the first chicken 0 -
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An animal that was very very similar to a chicken but slightly less similar to a chicken than the animal that laid the egg that produced the animal that laid the egg that produced the first chicken :pac:
Now I really am off to see Lily, fast!
/double JD with ice is needed after this thread 0
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