>>>>I think you're reaching there. Is anyone with even the most basic understanding of English honestly going to read "elections are Tuesday" and think it means they are a day of the week?
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>>>I KEEP telling him that context is all-important
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>>My worry exactly. Too much relies on the context, and the context is shrinking. This is the era of sound bites, button captions, headlines and msg brds. Maybe someone already died because of misconstrued context?
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>>The elections have become such a Tuesday recently, don't you think?
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>>>God help us if he starts on "I'll be there Wednesday-week" - he'll argue that weeks of teh year are named after days of the week (well at least 7 of them are) :-)
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>>Won't happen, because
>>- you know I'm a religion-free person
>>- I wouldn't want to leave in a situation where there's nobody to help you
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>Just what expression do you use for "oh My God!" and such? (I know we had this discussion the other year that all English expressions of surprise involve a deity)
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>>BTW, what's a "Wednesday-week"? A week which starts Wednesday?
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>In effect, yes: "in a week's (ie 7 days') time. starting (on) Wednesday.
>A better expression might be "sennight"
>>And how does Wednesday start if such a week isn't there to start it?
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>If we said "I'll see you Wednesday-week" it would mean "Wednesday of next week" or "a week on Wednesday"


Wednesday-week is synonymous with "Wednesday next", right? They do make sense but you won't hear either phrase over here.