Comment on Sunday SOTD Thread - October 13th, 2024 (#490)

• walden@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just to be pedantic – you’d call it “this wednesday” instead of “next wednesday”, even though it is technically the next Wednesday. English do be like that. I found this nice explanation:

  Strictly speaking you would say "this coming Wednesday" for future events, and "this past Wednesday" for events in the past - but in most situations "future" and "past" tend to be omitted, as the timeline is implied by the context.
  I went to the gym this Wednesday.
  I will go to the gym this Wedneday.
  

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  • DaveWave94@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Actually, this is super helpful - especially the little textbox explanation about coming/past Wednesday. Makes sense to me as we also have “kommenden Mittwoch” und “vergangenen Mittwoch” in german 👍🏻

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