If I say "See you next Saturday" on Thursday... When will I see you?

[TropicofCapricorn]

In 2 days, or a week and 2 days?

To me "this Saturday" is in two days, next Saturday is the one after...

My Liberty Faber diary starts each week on a Monday. That's pretty traditional...

I would say see you on Saturday or see you this Saturday if it was Thursday, as in your example. Next Saturday might imply the one after so personally I would state the date to avoid confusion.

I dont doubt there are many diaries of varying ages that start on Mondays and on Sundays. Neither is wrong.

The one after.. if in two days I'd say.. " see you this Saturday " not next Saturday.

I always think it’s the Saturday about to happen, ie in two days time, but a lot of people don’t so I always clarify what the person actually means.

To be honest, I can’t really understand why it’s the Saturday after(ie 9 days). Next to me means the one coming up, not the one after the one coming up. Ie. it’s the first one in succession, or the one immediately nearest today.

If I think of next Saturday I would think of nine days time, but it is counter to all logic. Logically it should be the next Saturday to arrive, which is two days time.

When I was in primary school in the mid 70’s, we were asked to come to school on a Saturday morning to take part in a local schools’ singing competition. No letter was sent home, the teacher just said ‘remember to come into school ‘next Saturday’ (this was probably the Wednesday of that week). I took it to mean the following Saturday as to me, the one coming was ‘this’ Saturday. ‘This’ Saturday came along and I was shopping in town with my mum. We saw a friend’s mum who said ‘Oh why isn’t Rose at the school, the competition is today!’ Well I was mortified and we ran home to get changed into uniform, and then got to the school as quickly as possible. Needless to say, I was too late and the whole thing was over. I was so upset I was the only one who missed it, that I felt I had misunderstood the information, but it felt logical to me (aged 8 or so) that ‘this Saturday’ was the one in a few days and therefore ‘next Saturday’ was the one following. It was the teacher’s fault really for not making it clear and not sending a letter home. Never forgotten that.

2 days.

It’s called Holy Saturday.
And the Monday is usually referred to as Easter Monday ime.

OP, basically when making arrangements like this I think people really, really need to clarify which Saturday they mean. Most people may think as you do (next Saturday = 9 days) but clearly not everyone does.

Also on here you’re asking directly, making people actually think about it and decide…this vs next. That process in itself will skew the results. Because it probably isn’t presented as such a clear choice when it comes up in casual conversation and people don’t think things through a lot of the time!!

Personally I think it varies depending on when you have the conversation.

On a Monday, ‘next Saturday’ would be the one at the end of the week.
But on a Friday, next Saturday wouldn’t be the next day, because it’s too soon (and tomorrow)! 😅

Not much logic involved perhaps 😂
Clarification always necessary!

no

If you meant in 2 days, then "This Saturday " or, "this coming Saturday " which would clearly convey the nearest Saturday to the day we had the conversation on.

Saturday next === Saturday week round here. You could say it either way. It's distinct from next Saturday.

Ah OK. Saturday week is very common here in Ireland but I've never heard Saturday next. Whereabouts are you that they use it?

Yes, you’d have to live somewhere everyone knows that ‘code‘ @Lundier .

Saturday next would imply 2 days time to me.

The one after. If it was in 2 days, you'd be seeing them either 'on Saturday' or 'this Saturday'.

A week and two days, but I would say the date to clarify.

I’d think it was in too days time but I know to clarify with dates as other people think it’s the Saturday in 9 days time.

if you were talking about other things, such as a bus, the next bus would be the first bus.

Next Saturday to me would be the one after this weekend.