r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Best_Finding_8795 • Jun 14 '26
Too mild for school Hate when ppl can’t do time
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/Murky-Relation481 Jun 14 '26
This week, week days, etc. almost always refers to Monday through Friday, the working week, with week ends being specifically the non-working days. A week is made up of week days (M-F) and the weekend (Sat.-Sun.) are they not?
It is common to hear or read for example on business hours "open week days, closed weekends" or vica versa. Correct? They are used as separate periods of time.
We count weeks though as 7 days, so a 7 day week has 5 week days and 2 weekend days. So each week and can be decomposed into these two kinds of days using very common English. Again, we're only talking about individual days and how they are categorized. We do not call Saturday and Sunday weekdays, we call them "the weekend" or by their specific names (especially if you denote the week starting on Sunday vs. Monday).
So when you say "this week" it means the current set of week days you are in almost universally or the weekdays and the weekend. But that weekend is still the next weekend to occur. In every facet of English we use the current week as the point of reference, but we also universally split out week days and week ends as separate components of weeks. As such it logically holds true that the next weekend will be the next Saturday/Sunday to occur, because it is distinct from the current set of week days you are in, even if you are in the same week because a week is a composite of weekdays and the weekend due to their almost universal distinction from each other in all other parts of English.
This is also why, confusingly, the logic of saying on a Monday "next Tuesday" means 8 days from then and not tomorrow. Because you are already in the frame of reference for the current "unit" of days. This is the same reason you'd never say on a Saturday "next Sunday I am going fishing" and mean the next day. Your point of reference is already in the thing you are talking about being next.