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> If you ask Siri now, it thinks next Monday is the 15th. Not sure about this in English, but in French you could have the same problem with humans. Most peopl

> If you ask Siri now, it thinks next Monday is the 15th. Not sure about this in English, but in French you could have the same problem with humans. Most people would think of "lundi prochain" as the first Monday that follows today, but some (including me, at least before I moved to a place with a different usage) would think of it as the Monday after that. Some regions have an alternative unambiguous way of saying it, some don't. So while the situation might not be the same in English (I don't know enough about English regionalisms to say), there are cases where usage is just ambiguous and neither Siri nor anyone can really be sure what you mean, unless they have spent enough time talking with you and paying enough attention to learn about these particularities. I guess it might happen with Siri, but I think it's not there yet (for now it's not going to understand that if you say "no Siri, the 18th of December" then it has to change its conception of "next Monday", but it could be done).

ac29 9y ago
Its generally pretty unambiguous in American English. I've only ever run into people claiming to have an odd way of using this and next differently online. For everyone else, there is an understood "week's" inserted into the phrase "this Monday" or "next Monday" (that is, they mean this week's Monday, even if it was in the past, and next week's Monday, respectively). Context cues help as well. The question "what did we talk about this Monday?" is obviously past tense and couldn't be interpreted to be referring to the following Monday. But if someone asked me today "lets plan to meet this Monday", its a nonsensical statement that would require clarification, because Monday was 3 days ago.
- blueprint 9y ago
  I always add a "coming" or "past" after "this" to remove ambiguity.
- virusduck 9y ago
  I'd say it remains pretty ambiguous. I often have trouble with people saying "next Monday" and I have to ask for clarification every time. My default for "next Monday" is "the next Monday we get to." Sometimes people mean the "NEXT" Monday, not "this coming Monday." Awful. And I never have considered or heard of the "this week's Monday" "next week's Monday" interpretation, although I guess I've heard people speak this way occasionally.

ac29 9y ago

Its generally pretty unambiguous in American English. I've only ever run into people claiming to have an odd way of using this and next differently online. For everyone else, there is an understood "week's" inserted into the phrase "this Monday" or "next Monday" (that is, they mean this week's Monday, even if it was in the past, and next week's Monday, respectively). Context cues help as well. The question "what did we talk about this Monday?" is obviously past tense and couldn't be interpreted to be referring to the following Monday. But if someone asked me today "lets plan to meet this Monday", its a nonsensical statement that would require clarification, because Monday was 3 days ago.

blueprint 9y ago
I always add a "coming" or "past" after "this" to remove ambiguity.
virusduck 9y ago
I'd say it remains pretty ambiguous. I often have trouble with people saying "next Monday" and I have to ask for clarification every time. My default for "next Monday" is "the next Monday we get to." Sometimes people mean the "NEXT" Monday, not "this coming Monday." Awful. And I never have considered or heard of the "this week's Monday" "next week's Monday" interpretation, although I guess I've heard people speak this way occasionally.