This is this and next is next?

[kneeshooter]

This weekend looks pretty full, and next weekend I shall likely mostly be in London. They make sense together, but what about when taken in isolation?

[Poll #504287]

Comments

[deeply-spurious.livejournal.com]

Depends what day of the week it is. If it is a Thurs or a Fri then 'next weekend' = not the weekend in the immediate future but the one after that... If it is a Monday, then 'next weekend' could be the one in the immediate future...

Clear as mud?

[sixtine.livejournal.com]

It has amused me much that someone with your username gave this answer :-)

The profundities of time

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

"This weekend" ia the nearest in time to the day you're in. On a Wednesday, the phrase has no meaning, it's either 'next weekend' or 'last weekend' depending upon which you're referring to. Tomorrow, next weekend will be this weekend.

[boglin.livejournal.com]

For me, it depends on where you are in the week. If on Sunday, someone refers to this weekend I presume the mean the one we're still in. Otherwise that was last weekend.

Next weekend only mean the weekend after the next one if used in the context you've used it in, otherwise it means the most immediate one IMO.

[snow-cvrd-heart.livejournal.com]

what yah doing this weekend.. awww gawwwwnnnn

[irdm.livejournal.com]

You don't have my choices

"This w/e" - the nearest one to now, so on Mon & Tues it is the previous, on Thurs & Fri it is the one coming. Wednes may well not have a valid "this".
If in doubt specify as in "this w/e just gone" or this w/e coming"

Last and Next kinda fall into the same scheme.
On a Monday, I'd probabaly use "last w/e just gone" to meen the w/e before the one that was a day ago.

Is Friday in the w/e ?

[irdm.livejournal.com]

Hah! - not having done the quiz before posting, I now see all the other replies saying much as me !!

[ant-girl.livejournal.com]

I think it depends how close you are to the previous weekend.

On a Monday, this weekend is probably the one just gone, and next weekend is the one following, but on a Friday, this weekend is tomorrow and next weekend is in a week's time.

Shades of grey in between.

[jfs.livejournal.com]

This weekend - the nearest weekend in the future, or the weekend you're in the middle of (if it's a Friday, Saturday, Sunday).

Next weekend - the weekend after This Weekend.

Last weekend - the nearest weekend in the past. (This could conceivably be "This weekend just gone", but that still indicates the past with the addition of "just gone".)

Any other usage is just plain wrong.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

But to ask, on a Monday morning, what someone did 'last weekend' as opposed to 'this weekend' is wrong.

[jfs.livejournal.com]

No it isn't. To do otherwise invites confusion.

If you really have to, use "This weekend just gone".

Clarity in all things.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

I disagree. The usage would more likely be "what did you do at the weekend?" or "What did you do this weekend?". The clarity is provided by the tense of the sentence.

If, on a Monday morning, you asked someone what they will be doing "this weekend", they are likely to look at you and ask if you mean "next weekend", because in their context, 'this weekend' is your 'last weekend'.

Or something.

Damn that Ser White.

[sparksoflight.livejournal.com]

Where's the buttons for "This weekend is not really a weekend for it shall be spent revising Jane Austen" and "Next weekend is freedom epitomised"? :D

[kneeshooter]

There there. That's your own special little poll :-P

[anemic.livejournal.com]

hello. i saw your pictures in the westmidsgigs comm, & very good they are too, i was just wondering how you managed to get your camera in without them complaining, or do you have some sort of photo pass?

[kneeshooter]

I had a pass. It's the only way to fly :-)

From your journal you seem keen yourself - doesn't Bar Academy really suck as a venue... especially for photographers.

[anemic.livejournal.com]

ah, those were from the academy 2! which isnt too bad at all. how do you get a pass!? i suppose you have to be really important and suchlike :p the reason im asking is because i got a new camera today, and i think it's too big to hide! :S

[kneeshooter]

CA2 is pretty bad too. The way to get a pass is to ask for one - talk to the record company/band pr/... and be nice.

What camera have you got now?

[anemic.livejournal.com]

hmmmm i might try that! the academy two is lovely, and really intimate, i love it. the main bit is too big and that sticky floor is annoying. i have a fuji s5000 now.

[kneeshooter]

I don't like the Red light they always seem to use in CA2. I see what you mean about not being so easy to hide that camera - still easier than mine as I have backpack full of gear for most gigs :-)