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[sonicdrift]

This recently caused some confusion, so I have decided to ask LJ:

Poll Weekends

Comments

[ceb]

"Next weekend" - I'd say next weekend of the 12th/13th, though I appreciate this isn't clear and usually catch myself and explain better...

[fivemack]

I might well use 'this weekend' to mean 28/29 November even on a Thursday, though generally my tenses are unambiguous in that case.

[tigerfort]

Thursday night is the point where this weekend/next weekend moves on for me; on Thursday "next weekend" is the same as "this weekend", but on Friday, "next weekend" would be a week later than "this weekend". Unlike fivemack, I'd never use "this weekend" in the past; even on Monday, it'd be "last weekend".

[tigerfort]

Also, looking at the answers:

a) I'm fascinated by the two people for whom "next weekend" and "the weekend after next" are the same weekend; this breaks my mental paradigm somewhat

b) do we have any kind of regional divide going on?

[vyvyan]

For the second question I wanted to answer with both the first two options i.e. I think either would be a plausible meaning, and I would have to use further context to distinguish (or just clarify explicitly).

[fanf]

Ditto.

[emperor]

+1

[sonicdrift]

Good point, I don't think I have a fixed point where "next weekend" becomes "this weekend" so usually clarify.

[theinquisitor]

My answers are inconsistent with each other ('next weekend' and 'the weekend after next' came out the same). This surprised me, but hey, it seems to be how I'd think of it.

[sonicdrift]

That's pretty much what I thought. My definition of "next" weekend changes during the week, but "weekend after next" always means "the weekend after the upcoming weekend".