Help::: need argument settled

**davearn** · 07-09-2007, 06:29 PM

Quite simply, a week is a block of time, as is a second, a year, a minute or a decade. The question could just as easily asked as "What are you doing tomorrow?" or What are you doing next month?"

**kingwilly** · 07-09-2007, 06:31 PM

Originally Posted by machangezi

I have crossed me fingers waiting for the TD TEFLer/EFL expert to come and sort this shit out for you clueless gits!

obviously sleeping....

**Thetyim** · 07-09-2007, 06:31 PM

I think some people may interpret 'next weekend' as the weekend of next week.
I have never used it that way.

**Agent_Smith** · 07-09-2007, 06:35 PM

A semantics debate, yippee

If your first in line at a bank and a teller yells "Next!" is she calling the guy behind you?

Next and This have the same meaning on Mondays. I wouldn't use Next for the rest of the week at all just to prevent confusion. "The following weekend" is what i would use to mean the weekend after this coming one.

**NickA** · 07-09-2007, 06:48 PM

Definitely 5, 11 days would be the weekend after next. The only way it would be 11 is if the coming weekend had already been talked about, ie "I'm going to Pattaya this weekend and then Chiangmai next weekend."

Doesn't matter what the grammar books say, if you say "I'm going to Pattaya next weekend" on a Monday morning and you mean in 11 days then you will be misunderstood by 99% of the people you speak to.

**Thetyim** · 07-09-2007, 06:52 PM

Slight error there NickA I would say
"I'm going to Pattaya this weekend and then Chiangmai THE next weekend."

**Sir Burr** · 07-09-2007, 06:53 PM

5 days because it is the next weekend coming up on the calendar.

**corvettelover** · 07-09-2007, 06:54 PM

Monday was what made the debate interesting. That is probably the only glory Monday will ever have as it is not exactly anyone's favourite day of the week.

**NickA** · 07-09-2007, 06:56 PM

Originally Posted by Thetyim

Slight error there NickA I would say "I'm going to Pattaya this weekend and then Chiangmai THE next weekend."

I don't think it's an error, I'm just northern

**nedwalk** · 07-09-2007, 06:58 PM

fuck me ..semetics!!! it ain,t rocket science...its when the next yahoo is..dose,nt every one count down the days!! mind you i only work a 4 day week..but that is just good management...

**Thetyim** · 07-09-2007, 06:58 PM

Of course if you are using a thai calendar then it gets really interesting because this weekend, or the weekend of the current week, will be last Sunday and the coming Friday and Saturday.

**davearn** · 07-09-2007, 07:53 PM

Logically, the week we are in is the week we are in...

**nedwalk** · 07-09-2007, 08:19 PM

maybe i should try and bullshit me missus..yes honey i,ll be home next weekend...like that will really work!

**kingwilly** · 07-09-2007, 08:22 PM

or not.

**Mr Earl** · 07-09-2007, 08:53 PM

Originally Posted by Butterfly

technically 11, in general speak 5

This is the correct answer.
If it's monday.
"this weekend" would be this comming weekend.
"next weekend" would be the following weekend.

Generally y'all are a bunch of illiterate drunk slobs.

**kingwilly** · 07-09-2007, 08:58 PM

Originally Posted by Mr Earl

Originally Posted by Butterfly

technically 11, in general speak 5

This is the correct answer.
If it's monday.
"this weekend" would be this comming weekend.
"next weekend" would be the following weekend.

Generally y'all are a bunch of illiterate drunk slobs.

i'mn wiv ya mate!

**Butterfly** · 07-09-2007, 09:02 PM

the consensus is 5 days

case closed

**Sir Burr** · 07-09-2007, 09:05 PM

So, if you were standing at a bus-stop and decided to catch the next number 98 that came along, you would wait for the second number 98 that came?

**Mr Earl** · 07-09-2007, 09:05 PM

^^mob rule doesn't make it right!

**kayo** · 07-09-2007, 09:07 PM

I refuse to read anybody else's rational until I'm really bored one of these days, but I voted next = five days time.

It's not the weekend after bloody next. It's not Last weekend.

It's next weekend.

**Butterfly** · 07-09-2007, 09:17 PM

Shouldn't we say next week week-end for 11 days ?

**kingwilly** · 07-09-2007, 09:25 PM

^ now i'm juz gettin confuse...

**Sir Burr** · 07-09-2007, 09:31 PM

From a dictionary

Next = 5 days.

next

/nɛkst/Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[nekst]Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective 1.immediately following in time, order, importance, etc.: the next day; the next person in line. 2.nearest or adjacent in place or position: the next room. 3.nearest in relationship or kinship. –adverb 4.in the place, time, importance, etc., nearest or immediately following: We're going to London next. This is my next oldest daughter. 5.on the first occasion to follow: when next we meet.

**November Rain** · 07-09-2007, 09:35 PM

It can mean both, depending on who's speaking. I would always ask for clarification as to which dates were meant

**blackgang** · 07-09-2007, 10:13 PM

Next weekend or the following weekend.

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