this weekend

[Ed Keer]

What about: "What did you do this weekend?" asked on a
Monday morning?

Ed

--- Mark A Mandel <mam at THEWORLD.COM> wrote:
> To me, "this weekend" means the one now in progress,
> or, if today is a
> weekday, the one that is going to come soonest;
> never the one just past.
> I.e., "this weekend" is never more than five days
> away, and the
> direction is always forward. I've taken to saying
> "this coming weekend"
> or, for the following one, getting lengthy as in
> "the weekend after this
> coming weekend"; similarly "this past weekend".
>
> I hope nobody finds "this coming/past weekend"
> ambiguous!
>
> -- Mark A. Mandel


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