vitally important calendar poll

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Suppose that today is Wednesday, March 1st.

A friend proposes an event for "next Sunday."

[Poll #440001]

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[earthling177.livejournal.com]

For me, "next Sunday" is obviously the one that is right after today, hence Mar 5th. However, my first language is Portuguese (Brazilian Portuguese, at that), so it might color the interpretation a lot.

Also, where I grew up, you have breakfast in the morning, lunch around noon, dinner around sundown and supper around midnight (when you have a big party involving all your family, like First Night), and it's very obvious by which word was used what time you're supposed to show up. It *always* confused me how people here can have "dinner" at noon and "supper" at 6pm, and it varies not only by region, but also if you are talking to someone who works in a rural area or a city. What was explained to me (and for all I know they might be pulling my leg), is that "dinner" is the bigger meal during the day, and if you are working in a farm, you may have had breakfast at 5am, lunch at 10am and dinner at 1pm and then went to sleep by sundown or something.

Bottom line, I learned to always ask what date/time it is, lest I won't be able to show up at the right one. But to be honest, that started long ago before I've even moved to US -- it started when computers became more common, and, for some people it's still "today" if they did not go to sleep then woke up, as opposed to all the other right thinking people (me included ;-) ) who thought that if it's 3am "today" means "even after I go to sleep and wake up". But I suppose that's yet another conversation.