vitally important calendar poll

[topaz]

Suppose that today is Wednesday, March 1st.

A friend proposes an event for "next Sunday."

[Poll #440001]

Comments

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Maybe, if the notice was submitted on Monday, the wording made sense at the time to the author and they hadn't considered that it would read differently on the day of publication?

[psongster.livejournal.com]

Yes -- that's my assumption. But it just reinforces your point that this particular aspect of the English language doesn't work well!