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When is NEXT Thursday ? ?

  • 15-06-2013 9:48pm
    #1
    con1982
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 515 ✭✭✭con1982


    In work on Thursday and a colleague asks me to cover a meeting for him NEXT Thursday. I make a note in my diary and continue on with my day.

    Later on, we are chatting about something and I say that I'm going on holidays in 9 days. He seemed confused by this and asked how I could cover his meeting if I am away.

    Essentially.
    My understading of next Thursday was in 7 days.
    His understanding was, Thursday in two weeks. Thursday in seven days being THIS Thursday, in his mind.

    Who is right?


Comments

  • #2
    recyclebin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,529 ✭✭✭recyclebin


    You are.


  • #3
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    Yes NEXT Thursday. Self explanatory really


  • #4
    Iwasfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    con1982 wrote: »
    In work on Thursday and a colleague asks me to cover a meeting for him NEXT Thursday. I make a note in my diary and continue on with my day.

    Later on, we are chatting about something and I say that I'm going on holidays in 9 days. He seemed confused by this and asked how I could cover his meeting if I am away.

    Essentially.
    My understading of next Thursday was in 7 days.
    His understanding was, Thursday in two weeks. Thursday in seven days being THIS Thursday, in his mind.

    Who is right?
    You are, next thursday is next thursday.


  • #5
    pharmaton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭pharmaton


    it's after this Friday and also next Tuesday


  • #6
    Seedy Arling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,002 ✭✭✭Seedy Arling


    C u next Thursday.


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  • #7
    Mya Slow Underdog
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Mya Slow Underdog


    I'd understand the confusion if you were speaking on a monday and didn't know whether you meant in 3 days or in 10
    But in 2 weeks? Ehhhh no


  • #8
    Creasy_bear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,609 ✭✭✭Creasy_bear


    It's the next Thursday obviously. I had this discussion with two girls in work. They thought it was thurs week.

    Christ.


  • #9
    con1982
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 515 ✭✭✭con1982


    This isn't the first time I've had this confusion with the same person.

    I'm in my 30s and he is in his 50s. Maybe it's a generational thing??

    Any 50plus here got a view on it?


  • #10
    con1982
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 515 ✭✭✭con1982


    Creasy_bear wrote: »
    It's the next Thursday obviously. I had this discussion with two girls in work. They thought it was thurs week.

    Christ.

    So Thursday week is the second Thursday? Why not say Thursday fortnight?

    Thursday week is unnecessarily confusing


  • #11
    Pj!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭Pj!


    There is 'this Thursday' and 'next Thursday'. Sometimes they mean the same day, sometimes they don't.


    This Thursday on a Tuesday is two days time Thursday. Next Thursday on a Tuesday is Thursday week. Next Thursday on a Friday is this Thursday.


    Can't see the confusion!


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  • #12
    Creasy_bear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,609 ✭✭✭Creasy_bear


    bluewolf wrote: »
    I'd understand the confusion if you were speaking on a monday and didn't know whether you meant in 3 days or in 10
    But in 2 weeks? Ehhhh no

    It doesn't matter if it was said on a Wednesday. Next Thursday is the next Thursday. Not the following Thursday/Thursday week.


  • #13
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    con1982 wrote: »
    So Thursday week is the second Thursday? Why not say Thursday fortnight?

    Thursday week is unnecessarily confusing

    Thursday fortnight is not Thursday week :rolleyes:


  • #14
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,217 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    This has always bugged me :pac: (well, not bugged me but you know what I mean, lol)
    Say it's a Monday for example. I'll say 'this thursday' (3 days) or if it's in 10 days time i'll say 'a week thursday' ... Just makes things nice and clear.

    This whole next thursday thing is bollox because some people mean this upcoming thursday and some mean the following. Those simple words "this" or "week" save so much confusion.


  • #15
    Creasy_bear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,609 ✭✭✭Creasy_bear


    Chucken wrote: »
    Thursday fortnight is not Thursday week :rolleyes:

    He has to be on a wind up.

    I'm out.


  • #16
    con1982
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 515 ✭✭✭con1982


    Chucken wrote: »
    Thursday fortnight is not Thursday week :rolleyes:

    If today is Thursday, when is Thursday week?


  • #17
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    con1982 wrote: »
    If today is Thursday, when is Thursday week?

    Boom the world just imploded :D


  • #18
    Mya Slow Underdog
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Mya Slow Underdog


    Creasy_bear wrote: »
    It doesn't matter if it was said on a Wednesday. Next Thursday is the next Thursday. Not the following Thursday/Thursday week.

    Sometimes- and sometimes we use it to mean the thursday the next week


  • #19
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Next Thursday is Thursday next week. This Thursday is Thursday this week.


  • #20
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,688 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    con1982 wrote: »
    If today is Thursday, when is Thursday week?

    If today is Thursday, next Thursday is 7 days. Thursday week is 14 days.


  • #21
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    If you're in a queue in a bank and the cashier says 'Next please', do they mean the person at the front of the queue or the person second in the queue?


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  • #22
    Bodhran
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 330 ✭✭Bodhran


    http://newpics.org/david/WhenIsNextThursday.aspx


  • #23
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Say Thursday over and over. It looses all meaning :eek:


  • #24
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers Posts: 42,171 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    I have this argument all the time, to me next monday its the next monday to occur.

    This whole thing about 'this' monday is just bullsheet


  • #25
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    con1982 wrote: »
    If today is Thursday, when is Thursday week?

    A week from next Thursday


  • #26
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Next Thursday is the Thursday which occurs next.

    Thursday week is the Thursday which occurs after next Thursday.


  • #27
    Pj!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭Pj!


    PizzamanIRL wrote: »
    If you're in a queue in a bank and the cashier says 'Next please', do they mean the person at the front of the queue or the person second in the queue?

    You see a bus coming in the distance that looks pretty full. You say to your partner "Let's not get this one, let's get the next one".


  • #28
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    Pj! wrote: »
    You see bus coming in the distance that looks pretty full. You say to your partner "Let's not get this one, let's get the next one".

    I say lets get into my car and we'll drive.


  • #29
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,688 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    Chucken wrote: »
    Say Thursday over and over. It looses all meaning :eek:

    Even typing it, It started to look all wrong.


  • #30
    apollo8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 349 ✭✭apollo8


    Why has nobody mentioned jam?


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  • #31
    jobeenfitz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,443 ✭✭✭jobeenfitz


    Next time get him to mark it on the calender cos he obviously doesn't know what "next" means.


  • #32
    Bodhran
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 330 ✭✭Bodhran


    To avoid all this confusion isn't it simpler just to say "Thursday 20th (i.e. next Thursday) or Thursday 27th (Thursday week). It's even more confusing when you start looking back: When was "last Thursday" and "Thursday just gone"? Would that be 6th and 13th respectively? Much simpler and clearer just to state the date then there can be no confusion.


  • #33
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    There's "this" Thursday, meaning the next Thursday, and "next" Thursday, meaning the Thursday after "this" Thursday. It's easy :D


  • #34
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    apollo8 wrote: »
    Why has nobody mentioned jam?

    Because this isn't a dole thread.


  • #35
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Thursday is a good day for jams.


  • #36
    CarlDunne1979
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 90 ✭✭CarlDunne1979


    Who cares about Thursday. It's seemingly owned by some eejit named Thur, and don't get me started on that mongaloid Tue.


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  • #37
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I call last Thursday this Thursday.


  • #38
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    "Thursday after next"
    "Thursday week"
    "This Thursday"
    All fine and easily understandable by everyone. If someone used "Next Thursday" to mean 2 weeks time, then they are a moron and you should not be speaking to such a person, let alone covering a meeting for them.


  • #39
    IM0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    pet hate of mine

    "so see you next thursday.."

    me: "what date is today?"

    me/them: "16th"

    me: "right so around the 21st?"

    "yeah see u then" / "nah this thursday!"

    me "right so"

    me: "see you then"

    problem solved!

    or.......


    "see you next thursday"

    "what date is that?"

    "the ____ "

    "right see you then"

    [option to argue like thread for 5 min or just walk away thinking "you wanker"]


  • #40
    languagenerd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,201 ✭✭✭languagenerd


    To me, next Thursday is the next Thursday that will occur (so if it's Monday "next Thursday" is three days away, if it's Saturday, "next Thursday" is 5 days away, etc.).

    "This Thursday" is the closest possible Thursday, even if that's already happened. ("What do you mean, she's emigrated? I saw her this Thursday!").

    So confusing. How did it happen that we, as English-speakers, never agreed on one definition for something so important?!


  • #41
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    brummytom wrote: »
    Next Thursday is Thursday next week. This Thursday is Thursday this week.
    sydthebeat wrote: »
    I have this argument all the time, to me next monday its the next monday to occur.

    This whole thing about 'this' monday is just bullsheet

    The fact that you two have the same avatar doesn't lessen the confusion for me.


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  • #42
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    http://bccclub.org/documents/This_Thursday_or_Next_Thursday.html


  • #43
    leggo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,061 ✭✭✭leggo


    brummytom wrote: »
    Next Thursday is Thursday next week. This Thursday is Thursday this week.

    This.

    Wait no, I mean...next. Or do I? I forget. What were we talking about again?


  • #44
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers Posts: 42,171 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    If 'this thursday' is the next occurring thursday, and 'next thursday' is the one after..

    Does that make 'thursday week' the third thursday from today????

    Any one who uses next thursday to describe two thursdays away is an idiot.


  • #45
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    .Sunday, Monday, Happy Days.Tuesday, Wednesday, Happy Days.Thursday,Friday Happy Days. Saturday, What a day,Groovin' all week with you.


  • #46
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,802 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    CarlDunne1979 wrote: »
    Who cares about Thursday. It's seemingly owned by some eejit named Thur, and don't get me started on that mongaloid Tue.

    Was he not Zeus ?


  • #47
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    "Mail me the dates and I'll mail you back about it"


  • #48
    ILikeFriday
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭ILikeFriday


    Next Thursday means literally the very next Thursday after today. So this cannot be more than 7 days away.
    This Thursday means the same as above.
    Thursday week means the following Thursday. So this is somewhere between 8 and 14 days away.
    Friday's where it's at anyway.


  • #49
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,078 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    con1982 wrote: »
    In work on Thursday and a colleague asks me to cover a meeting for him NEXT Thursday. I make a note in my diary and continue on with my day.

    In that context I would presume that when he said NEXT Thursday he meant Thursday week, (ie not this coming Thursday),
    but next Thursday, as in Thursday of next week, and I would fill that in my diary accordingly.

    PS; I would more than likely clarify the day, just in case . . . .


  • #50
    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    con1982 wrote: »
    Who is right?

    Neither of you I'd say as you should both have verified it by saying the date of the Thursday in question.

    I've found that the way I was thought in Ireland is similar to the usage in the UK. 'this' Thursday is the next Thursday and 'next' Thursday is the one after that. People in different countries, from different generations will use the terms differently. There is never a problem with 'this page, next page' or 'this year, next year' but always confirm when someone says 'next Thursday'.

    I'll try to find a source but AFAIK as far as any 'proper' or 'correct' English language usage goes, your colleague was correct but doesn't forgive him for not verifying.


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