Next Sunday

witnessmenow

If someone said to you "I'll be there next sunday" would you count that as the the sunday coming or the following sunday?

epgc3fyqirnbsx

depends on the stage of the week

now it wouldn't be tomorrow but the sunday after

but if you said it on monday it would be the coming sunday. maybe. would probably ask for clarification.#

are you arguing with your gf?

OutlawPete

I'd count it as the NEXT Sunday that comes, hence the word .. "next".

Millicent

Depends but if they say See you next Tuesday, you punch them OP. You punch them hard.:P

Nah, as Slasher said it depends on where you are in the week. From Monday to Wednesday I'd say the coming Sunday, Thursday through Saturday probably the one after.

Alessandra

I would say this Sunday for the next Sunday coming and next Sunday for the one after this Sunday.

OutlawPete

The real problem with all this "NEXT" business is simple.

The word NEXT .. should NEVER be used in the context of 'DAYS', never ever!

Only Weeks, Months and Years.

Say Monday Week or ..

This Monday.

Stephentlig

definitely next sunday, thats the way I would view it.

Pax Christi
Stephen

xuza

The following Sunday. "This Sunday" is the nearest Sunday to the day it is mentioned and "next Sunday" is the Sunday after.(if ya get me!)

shuvly

Depends on the context of the "next sunday" and the relationship you have with the said partee in this , possibly fickle, but potentially, important, relationship.....anyhow, being as this is AH, go for the roide, always a popular decision here, and pics, r gtf!(am playing to form...)

Pompey Magnus

Even though I understand the official distinction between "This Sunday" and "Next Sunday" I would not take this as being Gospel.

Like if it was Monday or Tuesday and someone said "See you next Sunday" I would think there is a good chance they actually mean the following Sunday, If it was Friday and they said it then I would assume it was Sunday week.

OutlawPete

Pompey Magnus wrote: »

Even though I understand the official distinction between "This Sunday" and "Next Sunday" I would not take this as being Gospel.

Like if it was Monday or Tuesday and someone said "See you next Sunday" I would think there is a good chance they actually mean the following Sunday, If it was Friday and they said it then I would assume it was Sunday week.

Honestly, this was discussed before and the only logical solution is never to use the word 'next' in conjunction with days of the week.

It confuses people and they will invariably have to ask you wtf you mean, this coming Tuesday? Or Tuesday week.

So just say that to begin with and all is golden

3hn2givr7mx1sc

I would take 'next sunday' as sunday week, but I always ask for confirmation, though, just to be totally clear.

MaybeLogic

I'd take as the following Sunday, Sunday week. (although that could depend on how early or late in the week it was)
If he'd said the Sunday coming or this Sunday, I'd be there this Sunday.

witnessmenow

witnessmenow wrote: »

If someone said to you "I'll be there next sunday" would you count that as the the sunday coming or the following sunday?

I'd take it as being totally ambiguous and double check
personally I would say "this sunday" for this week and "next sunday" for next week

stovelid

I would have said next Saturday- for March 20th - all this week and today but will say this Saturday from tomorrow, if that makes sense.

Dunjohn

OutlawPete wrote: »

The real problem with all this "NEXT" business is simple.

The word NEXT .. should NEVER be used in the context of 'DAYS', never ever!

Only Weeks, Months and Years.

Say Monday Week or ..

This Monday.

This is a sensible solution. I may adopt it. Now I just need everybody else to.

Yeah, I know "next" is supposed to mean "not the one coming, the next one," but it's used so interchangably that people usually end up doublechecking which Sunday the speaker means - completely negating the point of using shorthand. It does seem to depend on the day of the week. Nobody would call tomorrow "next Sunday," but say that on Monday and it could mean either.

Hagar

"See you on Sunday" is the closest Sunday to today.
"See you next Sunday" is the Sunday following the closest Sunday to today.

Biggins

"I'll be there next Sunday" to me is the nearist Sunday coming...

Dave!

There's actually a really interesting experiment that was done on this kind of thing in Stanford.

Subjects were presented with the question 'Next Wednesday's meeting has been moved forward two days. What day is the meeting now that it has been rescheduled?'

Before they read the question, they were given a short task to make them think of themselves as either moving through time, or else as time moving through them (you can see the primer task in the full paper).

The results:

Subjects primed to think of objects coming towards them were more likely to think of time as coming towards them (67% said the Wednesday's meeting was moved forward to Monday) than they were to think of themselves as moving through time (only 33% said the meeting had moved to Friday). Subjects primed to think of themselves moving through space showed the opposite pattern (only 43% said Monday, and 57% said Friday). It appears that people's thinking about time is indeed tied to their spatial thinking.

To further explore that idea, they asked the same question of people waiting in the cafeteria line. They were wondering if the act of moving along the queue primed people to think of themselves as moving forward through time. So they expected that the higher up the queue you were (thus the more forward movement you have made), the more likely they were to think of the meeting as having moved to Friday.

The results:

As predicted, the further along the queue people were, the more likely they were to think of themselves as moving through time ... It appears that spatial position in line (and hence the amount of forward spatial motion a person had just experienced) was the best predictor of people's thinking about time.

There's another couple of experiments that they did at the airport and on a train, and you can read about them fully right here.

But the long and short of it seems to be that "people's thinking about time is closely linked with their spatial thinking and spatial experiences."

I thought it was a pretty sweet experiment !

Beasty

This thread brings back memories. Is Sunday any different from Friday?

Hagar

Yes, Friday is Crunchie Day.:D

brummytom

Alessandra wrote: »

I would say this Sunday for the next Sunday coming and next Sunday for the one after this Sunday.

This.
Next Sunday is the Sunday after this sunday


God, this has been done to death.

Sea Sharp

'Sunday' means tomorrow.
'Next Sunday' means 8 days time.
'Sunday week' means 15 days time.



(when you consider this post was written on a Saturday.)

K-9

GaNjaHaN wrote: »

'Sunday' means tomorrow.
'Next Sunday' means 8 days time.
'Sunday week' means 15 days time.



(when you consider this post was written on a Saturday.)

How is Sunday week 2 weeks?

Sea Sharp

I'm not sure.
That's hows I've always said it though.

BOHtox

Last Sunday
This sunday/Sunday coming
Next Sunday ( Sunday week exept if tommorow is Sunday but i do ask for confirmation)