This always bothers me when I hear it. If you MEAN Saturday just SAY Saturday, no need to bring a confusing "next" into the equation. If I need to know, I'll ask for clarity.
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If I say Saturday, that's a replacement for "this Saturday". "Next Saturday", 7 days after "this Saturday" or "Saturday".
you meet in 3 days.
The "Next Saturday" is just the next Saturday, the closest Saturday right? Or does it work differently in English?
i agree with this and don't even think about it because it makes so much obvious sense, and i confuse people often who believe it to mean the one after the next one (aka "this" one) smh
That's what I'm trying to find out. Most people seem to think that you're wrong, and that it would be "this Saturday" if it's this week, and "next Saturday" is the one after that. So if you're on Sunday then "this Saturday" would be yesterday and "next Saturday" would be six days. But usually, "next Saturday" is more than 7 days away
I say next Saturday for the Saturday that will occur soonest.
If someone waiting at a bus stop asks me which bus goes to the train station, I say the “the next one”. Meaning the one that will appear first at the bus stop, not the one after that. Which makes sense for days of the week too, to me anyway.
I am always being corrected, though.
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Next Saturday means the very next upcoming one unless you are a loony in which case it means the Saturday after the very next one.
It can be either. Time is a relative concept that depends on the perception of the user.
When a teenage mare says there party starts at 9 pm, are you there at 8:50?
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