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

Omg my autocorrect is in overdrive.

What I’m trying to explain, is that I guess some people see days of the week as static (this weekend, the next weekend).
This is also how I would refer to this.

Perhaps people who say next weekend, refer to the experience of the weekend - like a bus or anniversary that is experienced. I would refer to my birthday for example as the ‘next birthday’ until it’s close enough, that it becomes “this birthday”

1. The closest weekend would be this weekend. But I wouldn't be surprised if whoever I was talking to clarified the date. I would also check if someone referred to any weekend in any way other than "this", pm weekend after next etc

Both

It's this weekend unless there's a weekend in between today and the one I'm referring to, then it's NEXT weekend

So I'd say 2 is right

1 and 2
Last weekend
This weekend
Next weekend (or not this weekend, the next one)

2, next weekend. The one in two days is this weekend.

1

I’d say “a week on Saturday...”

Or “not this weekend but the next”

Weekend after next

The one in 9 days is next weekend. The one in 3 days is this weekend.

1. Weekend after next. Surely ‘next weekend’ literally means the next weekend ?

If I mean the weekend in two days I say 'this weekend'.

Next weekend. Obv. Option 1 is madness. 😂😂

This weekend...the one in a few days
Next weekend...the one in 7 plus days

I'd say 2 , as in 2 days time it would be this weekend and the following weekend to me would be next weekend .

1

Not this weekend, next weekend or even the following weekend.

@unicornparty

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

Correct.

definitely 1

I'd say "next weekend......not THIS weekend, the one after, you know, NEXT weekend. The one in 9 days. No. I'm right. The one in 2 days is THIS weekend, what?? No, that was LAST weekend. Fml. The 5th december".

The weekend after next' if it was in 9 days time

No! That would be this weekend, then next weekend and the weekend after next - so 16 days time

2

1. Just so there is no confusion. Next weekend could mean the next weekend coming up, so this weekend as opposed to the following one.

The weekend immediately before you: ‘this weekend’.

The weekend after that one: ‘next weekend’.

1. Because the next weekend is the one in two days time. But you could equally call the next weekend, this weekend and that would be clearer.

So I'd favour

This weekend- for the one in two days time
The weekend after next - for the one in nine days.