vitally important calendar poll

[topaz]

Suppose that today is Wednesday, March 1st.

A friend proposes an event for "next Sunday."

[Poll #440001]

Comments

[mattlistener.livejournal.com]

In my experience:

On Monday, "next Sunday" means 6 days from now.

On Saturday, "next Sunday" means 8 days from now.

...so obviously somewhere in between, it becomes a tossup what the person means.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

*ding!* I would say that for me, the shift from denoting the upcoming Sunday as "next Sunday" to denoting it as "this Sunday" definitely has taken place by Thursday. On Tuesday, I'm still saying "X was this Sunday," as in "this past", so the upcoming Sunday is "next". But on Wednesday, it's a gray area.

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I chose Wednesday to make the example as ambiguous as possible. :-)