A new word "oxt"

[Laurence Horn]

On Jul 17, 2014, at 2:20 PM, caitlin o wrote:

> DanG said: "Funny, I always thought "this Thursday" v "next Thursday" accomplished the same thing."
> It doesn't in my experience because one can say "next Friday" to refer to the closest coming Friday or to the oxt Friday.  I know people who frequently inter-change "this" and "next" in this context because they're never sure which their audience prefers.  It's annoyed me for a very long time. I have taken to specifying the date, or always using the phrase "not this coming Friday, but the Friday after that". 
> Personally, I am very excited about oxt.

Easy to remember, too, and very intuitive.  My ale soup--not the immediately upcoming ale soup, but the one right after that--is my oxt ale soup. 

LH 
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>> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 14:13:55 -0400
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>> Funny, I always thought "this Thursday" v "next Thursday" accomplished the
>> same thing.
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>> DanG
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>> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>> The real beauty of oxt is that it can refer to
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