What does "next weekend" mean to you?

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31 Jul 2009, 4:22 pm

I think it depends on what part of the country or world you come from, and what your parents used growing up. I'm pretty sure it's not an AS or NT issue, judging by both experience and the myriad of responses here...

I always thought "next weekend" was short for "the next weekend after this weekend." Ideally it would be used in a context such as, "Is that this weekend or next weekend?" to make it clear they are two different weekends.

As for the original question, it would be a bit strange to just say "next weekend" on a Monday. Wednesday or later would almost always be "this weekend."

This reminds me about the various meanings of "last night." Around here, "last night" invariably means the last evening I was up before I went to sleep (that is, the day before). In some places, however, I believe this is referred to as "tonight," as in, "how much sleep did you get tonight?"

Interestingly, my wife refuses to advance the calendar day in her head until after she goes to sleep, even if she is up after midnight. So if it's Saturday night and we go to bed at 1 a.m. Sunday morning, we still went to sleep on Saturday night in her opinion.

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31 Jul 2009, 4:49 pm

Dragonfly_Dreams wrote:

Pretend today is Monday.

"Lets go swimming next weekend!" means when to you?

I'm having an argument with my husband about it. Its not an argument about which is right or wrong. (I believe people interpret it both ways.) The argument is, he believes he's right and my logic is flawed to believe otherwise.

I believe that this weekend and next weekend are the same thing, unless we're IN this weekend..or perhaps very close to the weekend. And then "next" weekend would be the weekend that is NEXT. If I want to mean the following weekend, I will say the weekend after next. Of course, if used in a different context I can understand what the speakers means if they believe differently in the "next" argument.

So is it because of my AS, my brain dysfunction, or is this argument just one of those that exists.. with many people on either side of the camp?

It has nothing to do with AS/NT. I've seen arguments about it. I agree about using calander dates when a persons not sure about this/next weekend means. I'd suggest to agree to disagree (inside yourself) and use calander dates to clarify when he means day wise if you're unsure when he means.

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31 Jul 2009, 4:51 pm

i'm hopeless with this question. it's (vaguely) comforting to know others struggle with it too.

this weekend? that i get. next weekend? i figure it could go either way--meaning this following weekend or the one after. if i'm not (really) confused, i sometimes remember to ask people to clarify. i wonder if NT's have an instinctive sense of what's meant by it?

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31 Jul 2009, 4:56 pm

exhausted wrote:

Nope, I observed an argument between two NT's, one saying this/next weekend was the same and one saying they were different.

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31 Jul 2009, 5:00 pm

Lets just say that it was Friday. This weekend would mean tomorrow and Sunday, while NEXT weekend would be the Saturday and Sunday after that.

I'm quite often debating this with my mum.
She says to me a lot..."Lets do (insert activity) next weekend", but really means the one coming up. It's so confusing!

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31 Jul 2009, 5:20 pm

I use the terms "This weekend" or "Next weekend" interchangably at the beginning of the week, and I always ask others which they mean by either term if it's near the beginning of the week. Generally, I think a lot of people aren't very specific about it when it's a Monday, Tuesday, or--sometimes--a Wednesday.

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31 Jul 2009, 6:12 pm

To me personally, "next weekend" is too ambiguous. I don't use the phrase. If someone else does when talking to me, I ask them to clarify: this upcoming weekend or the next one after?

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31 Jul 2009, 7:51 pm

Myself, I would use it to mean the one coming up.. uh.. next lol. But I know some people use it to mean the one after the coming one so when someone says it to me, I always ask to find out which one they mean :lol:

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31 Jul 2009, 8:50 pm

LOL! Dragonfly a couple months ago I made a topic similar to this LOL! :-) IMO

this weekend= Aug. 1st/2nd

Next Weekend= Aug. 8th/9th

This Mon= Aug 3rd

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31 Jul 2009, 10:21 pm

For me: if it's Monday, the weekend coming up is this weekend, and the weekend after that is next weekend. I know that this is a thing that causes a lot of confusion, so I'll always clarify exactly which weekend I mean in terms of what date it is, how how many days it is from "today".

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01 Aug 2009, 5:55 am

Here's how I interpret it...

For example,today is monday (1) so saturday will be on the sixth of the month-this will be the weekend..and the next weekend will be on the 13th...

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01 Aug 2009, 7:49 am

visnofskygirl wrote:

Here's how I interpret it...

For example,today is monday (1) so saturday will be on the sixth of the month-this will be the weekend..and the next weekend will be on the 13th...

thats how i see and say it, or just to make things a bit easier i just use dates

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01 Aug 2009, 12:35 pm

If it were Monday or Tuesday, I would understand "this weekend" and "next weekend" to mean the same thing: the weekend that begins on the Saturday. I would not understand either of them to mean the weekend that begins on the Saturday after. If it were later, I'd want clarification.

I don't say "next weekend" to mean "not the literal next weekend but one weekend after", I say "not this weekend but the next", or something similar. Around here (I've no idea how widespread it is), people refer to days in the following week by simply following the name of the day with week, so if I wanted to say "Friday next week" I'd just say "Friday week."

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01 Aug 2009, 4:28 pm

To me, it means the next weekend coming.

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02 Aug 2009, 4:03 pm

If today was Monday - say, Monday the 3rd - then the weekend that we are approaching (the 8th and 9th) would be 'this weekend', and 'next weekend' would mean the weekend after that (the 15th and 16th). I've had disagreements/confusion about this with people too.

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03 Aug 2009, 2:51 am

To me the coming weekend would be this weekend, and the weekend after that would be next weekend.

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