Let’s imagine it’s currently Wednesday the 1st. Does “next Saturday” mean Saturday the 4th (the next Saturday to occur) or Saturday the 11th (the Saturday of next week)?
- This Saturday = the 4th
- Next Saturday = the 11th
But this Saturday is the 2nd
Using the calendar dates in the question.
No shit, Sherlock.
This is why I NEVER use the word “inflammable.” “Flammable” doesn’t have that built-in possibility to confuse apprentices.
The “Next Saturday” is just the next Saturday, the closest Saturday right? Or does it work differently in English?
That’s what I’m trying to find out. Most people seem to think that you’re wrong, and that it would be “this Saturday” if it’s this week, and “next Saturday” is the one after that. So if you’re on Sunday then “this Saturday” would be yesterday and “next Saturday” would be six days. But usually, “next Saturday” is more than 7 days away
I say next Saturday for the Saturday that will occur soonest.
If someone waiting at a bus stop asks me which bus goes to the train station, I say the “the next one”. Meaning the one that will appear first at the bus stop, not the one after that. Which makes sense for days of the week too, to me anyway.
I am always being corrected, though.
You are describing “This Saturday”. Next Saturday is the one after that It’s just like “this week” indicates something within the next 7 days and “next week” occurs 1 day after the end of “this week”. So if its Wednesday, “this week” goes through Tuesday and the following Wednesday starts “Next Week”.
Ahhh that makes sense!
Next Saturday means the very next upcoming one unless you are a loony in which case it means the Saturday after the very next one.
‘This’ is the first Saturday, ‘next’ is the second Saturday, from whatever day that you are in.
Not wegen today is Sunday
What?
You heard them.
‘This’ is the first Saturday, ‘next’ is the second Saturday, from whatever day that you are in.
Not wegen today is Sunday
What?
You heard them.
I’m asking for clarification, I do not know what’s trying to be communicated.
Autocorrect massacred the word when. Now my post should make more sense
Thanks for the correction and the reply, now it makes more sense.
Man I feel like I really earned that correction with some of the replies I got. :p
This’ is the first Saturday, ‘next’ is the second Saturday, from whatever day that you are in.
Not *when today is Sunday
Actually what I said still works. If you’re on a Sunday, you have one Saturday in front of you still, and you would say “this Saturday”.
Approximately 5 days before the day in question, “next” becomes “this”.
That’s the answer.
Excellent question that has always bothered me too.
coming Saturday = Saturday 4th
next Saturday = Saturday 11th
If somebody says to me next Sunday I just assumed they mean the next Sunday to come around. Especially because there is a lot of ambiguity about when the week begins and ends. American software likes to default to calling Saturday the final day of the week, and Sunday the first day of the following week.
Technically “next Sunday” is the nearest Sunday (eg “sunday of next week”), however next Saturday is not (because it’s the Saturday of next week"). This assumes we all accept that Sunday is considered the start of the week - which isn’t always the case nowadays.
It’s chaos! But I’m just pointing out that there’s a wired logic to it, which I assume at some point made more sense than it does in our time.
Yeah, it’d be great if that were the case. But Saturday the 4th is also just the next Saturday in terms of Saturdays.
It’s an ambiguous term and so always needs clarify gbas you and the person you’re talking to may be thinking along different lines.
Just stop being ambiguous. Give a specific date, because based on the number of answers here “next Saturday” could mean anything from last week to 6 years from now (yes, I’m being dramatic for effect).
When we get to this Saturday, next Saturday moves a week beyond our grasp. In some sense, when we die, our own timeline ends, and we can finally arrive at next Saturday for the first time.
Because the longest lives are around 110 years, and children start speaking around 3, the furthest in the future “next Saturday” can be is abouy 107 years.
Saturday is Saturday. Next Saturday is not. Otherwise why add the modifier?
If I say Saturday, that’s a replacement for “this Saturday”. “Next Saturday”, 7 days after “this Saturday” or “Saturday”.
It means: The next time it is Saturday. that is when they are referring to. It takes all of a three-year-old to understand this, and I pity anyone lacking that level of intelligence.
If reading comprehension, and the general intelligence of the public has sunk so far that even such a basic phrase is now unintelligible to people, it’s no wonder that Donald Trump is about to be reelected as president of the United States.
It means not the Saturday that is coming because that one is just Saturday but the next Saturday so the 11th to use OP to use example
There’s no need to be an arsehole
I think a lot of people are over thinking this. I don’t think anyone would say next Saturday meaning this Saturday at all. You’d just say Saturday.
Like, “I’m going to see dune 2 Saturday.” There is no need to clarify which Saturday it’s going to be if you don’t muddy it by trying to qualify it needlessly.
So next Saturday should always be the Saturday after this upcoming one.
I don’t think anyone would say next Saturday meaning this Saturday at all
I am someone who does this. I know it’s convention to say “this Saturday” for that, but when I’m not thinking about it too hard, it just comes out as “next Saturday” aka “the next Saturday I will experience after this very moment” aka what you would call “this Saturday”. I usually have to immediately follow up with a disambiguation, because I usually only catch myself after having said it.
Right? But no, actually wrong. I said “next Saturday” thinking it was obvious, and 4/9 people thought I meant this Saturday
I’m a firm believer that “Next Saturday” refers to the upcoming one, however, I understand most people do not, therefore it’s easiest to ask how many days, or the specific date. I.E. Saturday the 15th, Weekend of the 15th, in 12 days.
