Category: Let's talk
Fellow zoners of our planet,
This question has pondered me for several years. It has begun to pain me to the point where I can't do anything else but think about it. Will you please relieve my pain by helping me answer it? I'm making a puppy face at all of you. Lol.
I grew up with the notion that the week starts Monday. It's like you growing up with the idea that Earth is round. But then... I came to the United States, and the Earth was declared flat!-the week here starts on Sunday, not Monday.
Now, a couple of reasons why I find this a bit odd. First, the word for Monday in Hungarian (my native language which, to this date, I speak pretty well) is "hétfo", or, translated, "prime week"-in other words, the "prime of the week", when the week begins. Thus, I have always regarded Monday to be the start of your week, since that is also when you start the entire cycle of a boring routine over again;We all know it! Get up, brush teeth, eat, go to work, get home, maybe nap for an hour, take care of the kiddos, go to sleep.... Monday is when your routine begins.
My second puzzlement stems from the idea that when Americans depart from one of other on Friday, they say "have a good weekend!". Well, if it's Saturday night, and you are saying bye to your friend, you still tell them, "have a good rest of your weekend!".
Excuse me? Shouldn't we invent the word "weekbeginning?". Afterall, Sunday is the time the week begins.
Or better yet! Why not move the weekend to Friday and Saturday. That way, we'd have the weekend, truly when the week ends and I'd be able to wrap my old creeky mind around the idea that in deed, when my week begins, I do start the cycle of my routine over again.
Any thoughts? When do you consider your week to be over for you in your mind? If it's Sunday do you talk about "next Monday" or simply Monday? I personally still call it "next Monday", because my brain still is geared to be in the "it's the end of this week" mood. I have had people be confused many a times since I told them "next Monday" when refering to tomorrow. Actually, any "next day"-"next Thursday" in my mind, on Sunday, is the upcoming thursday, and not the Thursday after the Thursday. Get it? :)
Ok, just thought of this. Moving the weekend to Friday and Saturday would conflict with church for many of us. Though-and I'm not jewish to say-isn't Sabbath on Friday? Granted, 60% of the world seems to be Christian-so I suppose the majority wins this one.
All the best,
Tomi
I'm totally fine with the week starting on sunday, because that's what we've all done, and it's sort of right too, since it's not really a weekend day, because you don't go out and party and all that, you sort of settle down and get ready to go back to work.
and this is bothering you to the point of pain why?
Perplexing, I'm sure. I agree with you that the week should technically start on Monday, but it's such a small technicality...
I always grew up with the idea that the week starts on Monday as well and that the weekend is just that. It just seemed natural, as I always had off from school on Saturday and Sunday. Yet the little song for learning the days of the week starts on Sunday. Once I started learning Greek, my ideas were knocked out of wack because of the names of the days. While not all days are like this, Monday through and including Thirsday all have number roots. So Monday is Deftera (second), Tuesday is Triti (third) etc. So when I was first learning the words, I couldn't simply use my fingers to count because I'd always be a day off since I started on Monday. Even my pill box for my vitamins and my birth control pack start on Sunday, which I've always found odd. So yeah, I'm with you. But I don't usually say "next Monday" when referring to tomorrow. When I do, though, I usually clarify.
I like that word, "weekbeginning"
Yeah! I REALLY like THAT word.
I've not sen it before used anywhere and
yes that speaks to something within me as well.
Like so oft folks will say
with a twinge in their voice,
Monday already :( ... after the weekend
{So negative like in thot}
...only, "Weekbeginning"
well, that sounds more so to be in a positive vein of thot
Like, Here's to a Weekbeginning, May all go well with you this week.
Weekend to me begins late mid-afternoon on Friday
and goes through to midnight Sunday night.
The new week/weekbeginning starts at a minute past midnight of
the Sunday though it seems to me most don't seem that
Monday has started until the alarm clock goes off on
the morning when they get up to go to school, work, and so forth.
...to theJournalist,
Beautiful new weekbeginning to you and may this week be filled with
many the loving moments.
I always believed that the week begins on Monday and that the weekend consists of Saturday and Sunday. Especially because I consider Sunday to be the Sabbath. I do refer to the Monday after Sunday as next Monday because in my mind, that's next week. Yes, people have had me clarify because they don't think the same as me, but that's quite all right.
This whole thing goes right up there with do-we-start-counting-from-one-or-zero question.
I think the week begins on Monday. Also, if it is Sunday and I want to talk about the next day, I just say tomorrow. But next Thursday is the Thursday that is five days away.
I used to start the week on Monday, but since several years ago and after really thinking about it, it makes more sense in my mind to consider Sunday as the 1st day of the week. When you get a calendar, they're 1st day is Sunday, and that's the day I go to church (starting my week out with God). It seems weird to do that at the end of the week, and if the week was supposed to start out on Monday, why aren't our calendars written like that? But what I still can't see myself getting used to is if work were to start on Sunday. So the way I think about it is that Sunday is a day to prepare for work the next day, and since most people ar already talking about the weekend and going out on Friday, I consider my week to end on Friday and Saturday, Saturday especially being the time for rest and no thinking about work. Thankfully, when I start my classes this coming semester, my week will end early, with only 2 classes instead of the 3 I have on Monday and Wednesdays.
The word "next" throws me off when we talk about day names; I prefer to say "this coming (day name)" and always have to be sure of exactly what day someone is talking about when they say "next (day name)". This is especially true when that "next (day name)" is tomorrow. But I always get it when next week is being discussed, unless said week starts on the following day.
I also saw the mention of whether to start counting by 1 or 0, and just wanted to add that I was taught to start with 1 but it makes more sense to me to start with 0 and end with 9. Man; that will be a conflict in my mind when/if I teach a child to count. *smile*
I don't remember what board I put this on but on the numbrline it starts from 0. 0 is the middle number right in the middle of positive and negative so it makes sense that we count from 0 to 9. Also, remember once you hit 10 the 0 gets added again so then again it goes from 10 to 19 and etc. The unfortunate thing is that so many times we have been taught to count from 1 to 10 instead of 0 to 9 that it sounds preposterous to some people.
If I am talking about the next day I use tomorrow, it makes more sense logically and grammatically to speak that way, I don't ever refer to tomorrow if it was to be monday as next monday or next week or whatever, I just say tomorrow, a lot less confusion or whatever. I sometimes count to like see you in two days and not like see you on tuesday.
My week starts on monday for me, mum has always taught me that so sunday being a start was always a little confusing, and befuddling. I start school again monday not sunday, it starts over monday and mon in latin is one. sun is not one in latin. It just makes more sense.
Also, I think you start at 1 0 is the end of the negatives, 10 is the end of the single digits, and 20 is the end of the teens. and so fourth, like 2010 was the end of the decade not the beginning of one.