Granted, today is Monday, but just for kicks I asked Siri to remind me to do something next Tuesday, and she scheduled it for one week from tomorrow.
Wonder what siri would have said if you’d asked yesterday?? Maybe ask this coming Sunday for kicks.
I’d take it to mean Tomorrow Monday or Tuesday day after tomorrow
It means 8 days from now.
LOL, from the last 2 posts alone its pretty clear that its unclear, if you know what I mean.No point in making assumptions-- a simple request for clarification solves a lot.
@sax it really doesn’t matter what you and your spouse decided. What matters is what the person sending the text intended.
This is a time you could win the battle but lose the war.
In other words…maybe you and your spouse came to an agreement…but it’s NOT what the sender meant…and you won’t be there on the right day.
Yes, @jym626, I will. Now I have to wish the week away!
Does anyone remember the thread about a teacher announcing on Monday that there will be a test NEXT Wednesday, and when she administered the test two days later the students weren’t prepared because they interpreted NEXT to mean one week from Wednesday?
When I mean next I mean not the last one, the incoming one. But English is not my native language so my husband knows to ask me again to clarify what date do I really mean. We have no argument that way.
He specially tells my kid not to argue with mom regarding these subjects. He means not to assume I meant this and that but to clarify what i really mean. The second kid is still learning.
Actually what led me to try Siri was an experience I had after the last thread I referenced in the above post. On a Thursday I asked Siri to remind me to do something next Monday, which I meant to be four days hence. She made it a week from Monday. That’s when I realized that even though in theory I believe the first occurrence of a day is “this” and the second occurrence is “next”, I was obviously thinking in terms of weeks (Sunday to Saturday) when I used that terminology.
Today is Monday. (yippee…)
“This Tuesday” is tomorrow.
“Next Tuesday” is a week from tomorrow.
I’d think they meant tomorrow (now today) or the day after, but I also know this is a source of munch confusion and would as for confirmation.
@thumper1 We clarified with the sender as soon as we realized we had different opinions. No big deal.
Like many fights it was over something small and really stupid but it escalated and got really heated. We have a great deal going on and maybe it was a safe topic with which to blow off steam. I don’t know. It just was way over the top. We seldom fight over anything. We rarely ever raise our voices.
It matters to me what YOU think, Why I am asking what you think is I very authoritatively stated in the heat of the battle that 99 out of 100 people would think like I thought (fool that I am).
Well, pretty obvious from the responses on this thread that it is interpreted differently by very many people and I had to suck it up and apologize. I even thought peoples understanding might be divided by gender but I don’t think so now.
RATS!!!
But he has some apologizing to do too…hahahahaha
For the record the D texted that she would see us next week, Monday or Tuesday. She meant today or tomorrow. I thought she meant next week. Seven days from today.
Stupid fight.
Thanks for your answers gang. 
And did your D understand why her text was confusing? That is even more important!
Same as prezbucky #49
I would absolutely, no question think it would be for 8 days from now. Not THIS week, NEXT week. I’m also surprised it was not a slam dunk either. However it seems that the majority of posters said the same…
Some calendars start the week with Sunday, some with Monday. If someone said “next week” on a Sunday, its easy to consider the next day (Monday) as “next week” - especially a student who is used to hearing teachers/professors talking about “next week” as referring to the following immediate Monday and beyond.
@sax, I would have said the same thing to my husband…99 out of 100 people would have thought it meant 8 days out. That’s because it’s been my experience that the people I have similar conversations with use those connotations. But after a similar thread on here about a year ago, I learned that many people consider next to be my “this”. Maybe it’s regional?
Could be regional.
I have found that we are very different communicators in general. He is an engineer. He speaks in very specific and exact ways. I,on the other hand, am the opposite of that. I use more words to get my general meaning out.
It has always been a challenge. After 41 years we have obviously worked it out but it is often a challenge.
Its funny though, my daughter is the one who said “next week, Mon. or Tues.” She is not technical at all but can have very weird syntax.Oh well.
Maybe I helped someone else out before they got into this.
Not the next day or day following…like 8-9 days.
@sax, my husband, the engineer, also thought it was 8 days out. LOL
I’m going with “it’s regional”.
Well, regional last night was two different bedrooms :))