How do you refer to future weekends?

[littlealex]

This sounds really silly but could you guys solve an argument for me that has been going for about 10 years!?

If we were say it is currently Wednesday night. and you were to refer to the weekend that happens in 9 days time (ie: not the weekend that will happen in approximately 2 days, but the weekend that will happen 7 days after the 2 days have elapsed) , would you say in casual conversation, either:

1. " the weekend after next..." or perhaps "not this weekend but the next one"

OR

2. " next weekend..."

Please reply with 1) or 2) and if you can be bothered explain why?

TIA x

2

Because it's "this weekend" and then "next weekend"

2

I would say next weekend.
The weekend coming up is this weekend.
However I would always check some knew what I meant or that I understood them. So in true Peter Kay style with hands waving about I'd be saying ' 'soooo. ......Not THIS Saturday but THE SATURDAY after!!!'

1. Next weekend. Saturday and Sunday at the end of this week is "this weekend" and the Saturday and Sunday in 9 days is "next weekend".

1. Next weekend, because it's the weekend of next week. This week's weekend is this weekend.

It does drive DH mad though!

And how do you describe the weekend that's just happened?
We say 'The weekend gone!'

1

I always say a week on Saturday / Sunday or the weekend after this if I'm meaning the entire weekend.

@unicornparty

I'd say next weekend. The weekend coming up I'd call this weekend.

This

I would say not this weekend but the next.

Can I confuse matters even more? To me it depends what day of the week we are on. Early in the week this/next weekend are the same thing to me. On Friday I would take next weekend as being the one in 8 days time.

I would say the weekend after next.

Next weekend is the one coming up. This weekend is the one that's happening now so I would refer to this weekend as Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday. Once it's Monday morning it's next weekend again.

Well I know what I mean!

Next weekend with the one coming up this weekend. But I’m always told I’m wrong.

1. Next weekend because it’s the weekend after this one

1

2 - next weekend.

As opposed to 'this' weekend, the one prior and 'the weekend after next' the one which would follow.

2

I'd say next weekend but I'd also clarify the date because I know it causes confusion.

Next weekend. The one in 2 days time is this weekend.
The one just gone was last weekend

I personally agree with @EscapedfromGN in that, the weekend about to occur must surely be called either "next weekend" (because it is about to happen) OR "this weekend" (as it is about to be the weekend that happens) but this depends on what day of the week it is. I would NEVER say "next weekend" to mean a weekend that occurs after one about to happen because to my mind it is just factually incorrect if referred to mid-week. If the day is currently Friday then that is when "next weekend" turns into the weekend after the one about to happen. God, I think that makes sense...lol

1. The weekend in 2 days time I would say this weekend. The one after would be next weekend.

No 2.

This weekend is this week's end. The one at the end of this week.

Next weekend is the next week's end. The one at the end of the next week.

The this and next refer to the week the end is attached to.

Let me try and clarify, lol

1. Monday to Thursday: "next weekend" OR "this weekend" means the next to occur
2. Friday to Sunday: "this weekend" means the currently occurring weekend
3. Any weekend not the one currently occurring and not the one occurring at the end of the current week has to defined as "the weekend after..." or "not the next but..."

Make sense?

The bus comparison doesn’t work because you cannot be sure when the bus comes. And if you were sure that there is a bus coming in 10 minutes, you might say, there is a bus due bit 10 minutes, I will take that/this one.

The days of the week are pre- planned. They are laid out in the calendar in front of you. This we refer to them as though physical things: this one vs next implies some difference in proximity.