Timeline for When is "Next Saturday"?
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| Sep 8, 2023 at 22:18 | comment | added | Darth Pseudonym | To me, "next saturday" means the next time the day is saturday, but if somebody said it that way on Friday I'd definitely stop and ask for clarification "Do you mean tomorrow?" because that's a weird thing to say if you mean tomorrow. | |
| Feb 9, 2018 at 21:57 | comment | added | Canadian Yankee | It's also subject to regional variations even within a single English-speaking country as to which meaning is more likely. | |
| Feb 9, 2018 at 11:31 | comment | added | J.R.♦ | @RonaldSole - I agree with you – it can be interpreted as either one. This is one area when English is unfortunately quite ambiguous. | |
| Feb 9, 2018 at 9:06 | comment | added | Ronald Sole | Next Saturday means what the speaker intends to convey. Whether the recipient understands the speaker correctly is entirely another matter. | |
| Feb 9, 2018 at 7:41 | comment | added | joiedevivre | I disagree. "Next Saturday" means the very next Saturday, whether it's in two days or nine days. "On Saturday" and "this Saturday" mean exactly the same thing. A Saturday that falls more than eight days away is "a week from Saturday." | |
| Feb 9, 2018 at 6:21 | history | answered | Varun Nair | CC BY-SA 3.0 |