Timeline for What highway exit does "Next Exit" refer to?
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| Aug 21, 2014 at 12:34 | comment | added | Zephyr | No offence to you, old chap. There is a subtlety here that seems to have passed you by... | |
| Aug 21, 2014 at 8:30 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | It may be “better said” that way to you, but the vast majority of the Anglosphere is quite happy to accept that both variants are perfectly fine: they’re both grammatically, semantically, and idiomatically sound. Regardless of what country you’re from. Additionally, I might add that thinly veiled ad hominem attacks are not welcome on Stack Exchange sites. | |
| Aug 21, 2014 at 8:24 | comment | added | Zephyr | My point is that it is redundant to qualify days of the current week with "this", for example, "I am going to go look for something else to downvote this Friday" is better said "I will do some research before downvoting on Friday". On Friday itself one would not use "this" of course - unless they are from Denmark. | |
| Aug 20, 2014 at 22:21 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | Quite the opposite: this Friday makes sense on every day of the week except Friday (and assuming of course we're not talking about things like “on this lovely Friday morning…”). If today is Friday and I say, “I'm going to the beach this Friday”, I'm basically making no sense. No one would ever say that. It's either today or next Friday. | |
| Aug 29, 2011 at 16:56 | history | answered | Zephyr | CC BY-SA 3.0 |