It's Thursday Or As I'd Like to Call It...: Funny Journal for Work

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James Barnhard said “It’s Saturday night and I say to you, “This Monday, I would like to go shopping with you.” By your rules, you should tell me that will be impossible because this Monday has already passed. Is that your contention? ” You’re very uncompromising straight talking almost to the point of aggression but I don’t take offence on this! Dear Thursday are you sure you’re not Friday? Because I could really go for it being Friday today!” – Unknown

What other day of the week is named after one of the main characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe? What other day of the week has a David Bowie song written about it? And you’ve guessed it, what other day of the week has Estonians dancing until dawn in the woodland? If you read the final part of my post you’ll see that I believe that the word “week” has been dropped from the phrase(something that’s not uncommon in English) so “this week Monday” or “next week Monday” is possibly where it started but in some areas has morphed into the confusing “this” and “next” we have now. Just like in where’s or there’s (contractions of where is and there is), the apostrophe signals that two words have been combined. Remember, any time you use it’s, you must be able to substitute either it is or it has in the word’s place. Pea soup tradition is weekly #TBT passion in Finland". This Is Finland. 4 January 2017 . Retrieved 9 February 2021.Here are the things that actually solve the problem. The definition of last is the one that occurs just prior to this one, and the definition of next is the one that occurs just after this one. Since we always speak with tense, if we refer to the future, this Sunday will always be the upcoming Sunday. So on Thursday, if you say you want to go shopping this Sunday, we all know that you mean 3 days from now. Therefore, if instead you say that you want to go shopping next Sunday, we can all know that you mean the Sunday after this upcoming Sunday, 10 days from now. Otherwise, you would have said This Sunday. Likewise, if you say that you WENT shopping THIS Sunday, we can all know that you went 4 days ago. And if you say that you went shopping LAST Sunday, you mean that you went shopping 11 days ago. Using the word THIS for the day that falls in the rolling week that applies to your tense solves the problem. This coming Sunday is 100% clear to everyone. This past Sunday is 100% clear to everyone. So if you properly use next as the Sunday that follows this Sunday, and last as the Sunday that preceeded this Sunday, there is no confusion. People simply need to use this, next and last, correctly. The confusion is really that many people don’t understand that next is not the one that is immediately upcoming. Next means the one that occurs just after THIS one. Quit overthinking and just do more of what makes you happy and alive. Hoping that you have a fantastic Thursday!” – Unknown

The astrologer and predictor of the future Nostradamus had some pretty wild things to say about Thursday. In one of his predictions, he claimed that a powerful leader would terrorize the East and make Thursday his celebration day. Defining THIS is where it gets tough for people. If today is Thursday, what defines THIS Monday? But actually, it’s quite easy. When we make statements or ask questions about the goings on of a nearby day, we always use tense. So if I am speaking in the past tense, THIS Monday happens to be 3 days ago. If I’m speaking in future tense, THIS Monday is 4 days from now. Therefore, it’s easy to see that last Monday was 10 days ago, and next Monday is 11 days from now. The key is in knowing that there has to be a THIS, and using it. Find sources: "Thursday"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( January 2008) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) In Hinduism, Thursday is associated with the Navagraha Brihaspati, whom devotees of this graha will fast pray and fast on Thursdays. The day is dedicated to the deity Vishnu or his avatars, such as Rama, Parshurama, Narasimha, and Buddha. However, Wednesday is dedicated to his avatars of Krishna and Vithoba. Devotees usually fast on this day in honor of Vishnu and his avatars, especially Vaishnava Hindus. [8] [9] Islam [ edit ]

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In Roman mythology, Thor is called Jupiter. Yes, this God not only has a day of the week named after him, but also a planet. It seems like Jupiter has all the fun, doesn’t he?

In Thailand, Thursday is a very important day of the week. It is considered Teacher’s Day and gratitude from students is expected each week.The most prolific artist and one of the greatest inventors of all time Leonardo Da Vinci was born on Thursday April 15, 1452. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Thursdays are dedicated to the Apostles and Saint Nicholas. The Octoechos contains hymns on these themes, arranged in an eight-week cycle, that are chanted on Thursdays throughout the year. At the end of Divine Services on Thursday, the dismissal begins with the words: "May Christ our True God, through the intercessions of his most-pure Mother, of the holy, glorious and all-laudable Apostles, of our Father among the saints Nicholas, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia, the Wonder-worker…" The Electoral Administration Act 2006 removed Maundy Thursday as an excluded day on the electoral timetable, therefore an election can now be held on Maundy Thursday; prior to this elections were sometimes scheduled on the Tuesday before as an alternative. To be honest, I think your English teacher did you a disservice in response to that story you told in Grade 7; it’s the sort of seed that strict grammarians sow that can really limit communication. It’s easy to dismiss a quirk in language as incorrect, and therefore to be avoided, but while starting a story “There was this man.” may be grammatically questionable I would not say it is incorrect. It is an informal use of ‘this’ which is often employed (certainly from my area of the English-speaking world) to introduce an unspecified noun in a familiar way. ‘This’ is very often used this way in spoken English, and indeed if you were writing an informal story from a particular perspective it would be perfectly acceptable. To say there is only one way ‘this’ should be used will inevitably not only limit your own range of expression, but your understanding of others. I don’t see this as a corruption, merely the way language evolves to suit the needs of communication, which is, after all, exactly what language is for. Reply