Next Monday vs. this coming Monday

Hi All,

I was discussing with a friend of mine...

He said "Next Monday", but I said next Monday wud be Monday after this... and this Monday would be "Coming Monday"...

What's idea of native English speakers??

Enjoy!!!
Bhupesh

i'd same 'the coming monday'. if it was tuesday and you said next monday, i'd infer that you meant the coming monday. however, if it was saturday and you said next monday, i'd assume that you meant a week on monday, ie 9 days away. stupid language!

it depends on how far away the monday is.

If today was tuesday I'd say "next monday" whereas if today was saturday or sunday I'd probably say "this coming monday" since "next monday" might be construed as the monday following that. I fi wanted to mean the following monday I'd specify "not his monday but the monday after" or "a week on monday".

"Next Monday" is the coming Monday, i.e. the 27th. For Monday the 3rd I'd say "Monday week", implying that the day is at least a week away.

og, great minds etc. or fools seldom...

there was me thinking I understood English

A week or more, then it is next Monday. Less than a week then it is this coming Monday.
I would not say next Friday when I meant tomorrow.

I'd agrre, when you use next it will usually mean the one after this one. If it is near, I would not say this coming Monday, but rather just Monday. For example. We can discuss this on Monday.

I say it different
I am going skiing THIS saturday (mar 25th), and working NEXT saturday (April 1).

I never use the term this coming saturday, but might say this saturday, coming.

If you substitute Monday with the word Train... Kind of makes a mockery of whats been said!

I would never use "The Coming Friday"

If it were a weekday and I wanted to refer to Friday of the same week, then I would say "THIS Friday".

I agree with earlier posts about more than a week away, or during the next week, then "NEXT ..."

If I were referring to Monday and it was the weekend directly before, then I would say "ON Monday" or "Tomorrow" (if it were Sunday).

WH

But in case somebody said, we'll go for skiing next monday, when he means coming monday, and question would be "Next Monday or Coming Monday"... Is this question wrong?

That should mean the Monday which will be upon us in four days. The correct response is of course, "Don't you have to work you lazy slacking bastard?". If the person posing the question is female then you will need to exchange the 'bastard' for an appropriate expletive of your choosing.

There is the unwritten law that "Monday" starts a new week and that is the magical cutoff day for whether using "next" (after Monday) or "this" (before Monday). I would actually say next Tuesday, but I wouldn't say next Monday.
Go with the Mon-Sun rule.

All is explained here: http://www.fakeisthenewreal.org/time/

I say Next Monday to mean the next time it's Monday...Isn't that how it's supposed to be used?

The Monday after is: 'Monday, week' in my language

I never use 'coming Monday'

Jimmy Buffett does.

on monday...if there are no mondays in between...next monday...for the one after...simple...never heard a variation on that...(except for, a week on monday, but thats just being tortological.)

same for me too.

Keydeck - you're a language whiz!

I understand the "next" to mean "next week". So for example, "next Monday" means the Monday in 3 days time.

If it were Monday today and you said "next Wednesday", I would take that to mean the Wednesday in 9 days time, not the one in 2 days time (that would be "this Wednesday", or just "Wednesday").

I like to keep things simple by using the date

What you on about, its Friday

For that, I'd usually say 'The day after tomorrow'

to add to previous post...the monday coming would always be "this" monday to me, and the next, "next"...that's the reasoning for my earlier .post

As ER said, if it's important use the numbers. Same with the time.

Blimey. Just to break a golden rule of TT I'm not going to read the whole thread before I post because it would hurt my brain.
But to me "this Monday" is the Monday in this calendar week, whether it be past or future (if it was present then I'd probably say "today", but you never know). So today being Friday, "this Monday" means the one 4 days ago. And "next Monday" means, er, next Monday.
"This Monday coming" however would clearly mean next Monday.

Hehe I have never heard of 'Monday week'!
I use 'this Monday' meaning the Monday which is in a few days.
I use 'next Monday' meaning the next Monday which comes, unless I'm saying 'not this Monday, but next Monday' comparitively, in which case it means 'a week on Monday' (or as some of you lot strangely say, 'Monday week').
'This coming Monday' would be the same for me as under 'This Monday'.
I'd never use the above for the past - only 'last Monday' or 'the Monday before last' for 2 weeks ago. Any longer than 2 weeks ago, I name the date i.e. Monday the 6th.

I have heard of Monday Week.

What about next yesterday?

For me the next time it's monday is simply "monday" if it's the following monday I say "next monday" or "monday week"


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