A new word "oxt"

[Dan Goncharoff]

I need a context.

If there is no turn for a while (it depends on speed, but about 50 yards)
the next turn means the first possible turn to the left.

If we are passing many lefts rapidly, the next left is past this left
coming up (probably too quickly to take safely).

DanG


On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 6:17 AM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> > I realized recently that my GPS confuses me because it uses "next=20
> > right/left" where I would say "this right/left".
> If someone said to me "Take your next right" I'd take the first right I
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> .  The one after that would "second right" or  next to next?How about
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> urn right=2C take the one before that.
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> > On 7/18/14=2C 12:00 AM=2C ADS-L automatic digest system wrote:
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> > > From:    caitlin o<caitqlin at HOTMAIL.COM>
> > > Subject: Re: A new word "oxt"
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> > > DanG said: "Funny=2C 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
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> to the closest coming Friday or to the oxt Friday.  I know people who
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> ently inter-change "this" and "next" in this context because they're never
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> sure which their audience prefers.  It's annoyed me for a very long time.
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>  have taken to specifying the date=2C or always using the phrase "not this
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> coming Friday=2C but the Friday after that".
> > > Personally=2C I am very excited about oxt.
> > I realized recently that my GPS confuses me because it uses "next=20
> > right/left" where I would say "this right/left".
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