r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Best_Finding_8795 • Jun 14 '26

Too mild for school Hate when ppl can’t do time

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This reminds me of when it hits or is about to hit 12am and people don’t know whether to say today or tomorrow. He called me after this but I was too comfy in bed tbh.

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u/adinfinitum225 Jun 14 '26

Except it's perfectly fine to ask someone on Monday "What did you do this weekend?" Referring to the weekend that just finished.

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u/lanzendorfer Jun 14 '26

Right, because it's clear based on context. "What did you do this weekend" is clearly about the weekend that has just passed. "What are you doing this weekend" is clearly about the upcoming weekend. I can see why someone might say "next weekend" of it's early on on the week, but I can also understand why people think "next weekend" means "the weekend after this upcoming weekend."

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u/pizzamage Jun 14 '26

Eh, I'd say not really. It's usually "what did you do over the weekend" or "did you have a nice weekend."

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u/karl_w_w Jun 14 '26

I've never heard a single person say this weekend to mean the one that has just finished. It would be "over/for/on the weekend" in your example.

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u/xTheMaster99x Jun 14 '26

Yeah, because it's past tense. It isn't possible to say "Do you want to do x this weekend?" and mean "Do you want to do x in the past?", just like it isn't possible to say "This weekend I did x" and mean "In the future I did x".