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It's interesting that there this ambiguity because when one is on the train/metro, it is totally unambiguous when the announcer says: "The next stop is X".
by j7ake 5y ago
It's interesting that there this ambiguity because when one is on the train/metro, it is totally unambiguous when the announcer says:
"The next stop is X".
- trustat 5y agoEven here, there is an implicit "after the current stop" in some cases. Hearing the announcer say "now stopping at Y, the next stop is X" is not incorrect but technically the next stop is Y. This is the same when referring to dates. "Next Friday" often has an implicit "after this week".
- TeMPOraL 5y agoOh no, it's totally ambiguous, and I hate it. Does "the next stop" mean the one that we're just closing to? Or the one after that? Even worse is people trying to communicate how many stops until destination - it's just inviting the listener to be off by one wrt. the speaker. Myself, I gave up on trying to say things like "we're getting off in 3 stops", because my brain just locks up trying to decide whether I should say "in 3 stops", or "in 2 stops", or "in 4 stops".
- ncmncm 5y ago"At the third stop".