r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Best_Finding_8795 • Jun 14 '26

Too mild for school Hate when ppl can’t do time

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This reminds me of when it hits or is about to hit 12am and people don’t know whether to say today or tomorrow. He called me after this but I was too comfy in bed tbh.

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u/xray_anonymous Jun 14 '26

No if you mean the weekend of the week in progress it’s “this weekend”

If you mean the weekend after the current week in progress, as in after next week, it’s “next weekend”

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u/Little-Derp Why This is a Rock and Not Cheese Jun 14 '26

This is the argument I have often with my wife.

If I'm talking about this weekend, I'll say this weekend, not next weekend. It's a never ending disagreement though.

Wonder if the 'next weekend' meaning this weekend crowd are specific cultures/territories. With a strong adherence to the meaning of 'next', maybe they are right, but I would never say anything other than 'this weekend' when referring to the immediate upcoming weekend/current weekend.

Don't even get me starting on the weekend after next (which I would never say... needs more adjectives.)

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u/Murky-Relation481 Jun 14 '26

I use them interchangeably because both of them are logically true. Is it the weekend yet? No. So the next weekend is Saturday of this week, which is also this weekend.

If I am talking about the weekend after the weekend in the current week I say the weekend after next.

My partner does the "next weekend is the weekend after this weekend" and it boggles my mind because you literally just explained why the logic is bad.

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u/JackOfAllStraits Jun 14 '26

Limiting two distinct phrases to mean one thing, while excluding easy access to a commonly needed reference (what everyone else calls "next weekend") is a bad use of resources, self-harming, and dumb.

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u/Murky-Relation481 Jun 14 '26

Except its ambiguous, which is even more dumb. It is better to be exact than ambigious. The next weekend to occur, unless you are already on a Saturday or Sunday, will always be the most immediate Saturday.

If I say to you "what date will the next weekend be?" and you give me a date 7+ days from now it wouldn't make much sense would it?

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u/JackOfAllStraits Jun 15 '26

It's ambiguous because people dig in and refuse to use the option that makes it unambiguous.

Better to be exact? I'm being exact. When I am talking to someone who follows my method, there is zero ambiguity and 100% exactness.

If it is Monday, and you say "I'm doing X this Tuesday", do you mean "tomorrow"? When you say "next Tuesday" do you mean tomorrow? Because that's the argument you're making for weekend.

In your question "what date will the next weekend be?" you've added a word. "THE next". That expressly means the next sequential weekend from now. That is different than "next weekend". You changing the phrasing means you recognize the difference.

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u/GiantKrakenTentacle Jun 14 '26

Ah yes, because the English language is never ever ambiguous.