Re: This day

Hi!

Christopher Bates writes:
> > I've had disagreements with people about this. In my idiolect, there
> > is no hard and fast rule as to whether "next Friday" refers to the
> > closest following Friday or the one after that.
> >
> Similarly for me... next Friday for me and a lot of other people I
> know around here can mean either the next Friday that occurs, or the
> Friday that occurs next week. In fact, the default and most natural
> interpretation for me is the next friday that occurs.
The same thing seems to be dialectal in German, too.  I use 'nächsten
Freitag' for 'friday next week' and simply 'Freitag' for either 'on
friday' (the next day that happens to be a friday) or for 'last
friday' if the sentence is in the past tense.  However, most people
around were I now live use it differently and this is confusing both
them and me.

**Henrik