vitally important calendar poll

[topaz]

Suppose that today is Wednesday, March 1st.

A friend proposes an event for "next Sunday."

[Poll #440001]

Comments

[beowabbit]

I answered “Sunday, March 5”, and all the rest of you are just flat wrong, because if there’s a Sunday between now and March 12th, then March 12th isn’t the next one, is it? Put that in your pipe and smoke it!

However, the phrases I would say to communicate those two dates are “this coming Sunday” and “Sunday of next week”.

(I think the reason all of those people are confused is that they’re mixing up “next Sunday” and “next week”, and thinking next Sunday has to happen in next week. But that’s what happens when we start putting creationism stickers in schoolbooks...)

Pardon me, I had maybe four hours sleep last night, all of it on an airplane.