I have a question for everyone to help settle a small dispute with someone. If today is Tuesday, and you want to tell someone the event is 3 days later on Friday, do you say “the event is this Friday” or “the event is next Friday”?
I believe that “this” is for the next occurrence of that day and “next” is for the following weeks occurrence of that day. The person I was talking to believes that “next” refers to the next time that day happens.
What say you?
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This Friday to me means the next one that comes, so 3 days from now. Next Friday is over a week away 🙂
Agreed, I think it has to do with the word next implying that the Friday occurs in the next week, not the next occurrence of a Friday. And we say “this Friday” because we are omitting part of the phrase “this coming Friday”