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Old 06-02-2004, 06:10 AM   #11 (permalink)
kulrblind
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I had an Irish psych prof in University who said (on a Tuesday class):

"We'll be having a short in-class essay assignment next Thursday"

And, when we showed up to class two days later, lo and behold.... we had a short in-class essay assignment to complete. Horrifying.

So, possibly not everyone means "next week's day-in-question".

A thought: If it's Thursday today, and I say "can you get this to me by Thursday", would you think I was referring to the current day, or the one that occurs in the following week (i.e. 7 days later)?
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