Next following: Difference between revisions

← Older edit

Next following (view source)

Revision as of 10:48, 19 October 2022

1,302 bytes added , 19 October 2022

no edit summary

Amwelladmin

Bureaucrats, Interface administrators, Administrators

82,891

edits

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-The sure sign of a [[Mediocre lawyer|lawyer]] who was soundly, but not sufficiently, beaten as a Clerk.
+{{a|g|{{image|Violet Elizabeth Botts|png|I shan’t give it to you William until the next following day.}}}}
+The sure sign of a [[Mediocre lawyer|lawyer]] who was soundly, but not sufficiently, beaten as a clerk.
-The “next following” day speaks to that nervousness that the day you have in mind is not the one immediately following the one at hand, but one falling some indeterminate time —four days, eight days, who knows, even three hundred and fifty-seven days — in the future.
+The “next following” day is a redundancy that speaks to that nervousness that the day ''you'' have in mind — namely, the one immediately after the one you’re thinking about — might not be the one ''your adversary'' does. For ''a'' day “following” this one might, conceivably, fall some indeterminate time — four days, eight days, who knows, even three hundred and fifty-seven days? — in the future. ''All'' days after this one “follow” this one; unless you say the “[[next following|''next'' following]]” day, cannot be sure it will be the one tomorrow.
-It pains one to think this kind of argument, the type you'd expect from that ginger girl on Just William to mount to avoid giving you back you pencil sharpener
+This is the kind of argument you’d expect from ''[[Violet Elizabeth Bott]]'' on ''Just William''. Allow me to channel my inner [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmal_Crompton Richmal Crompton]:
+:“Violet-Elizabeth, give me my rubber back.” <br>
+:“I shan’t.” <br>
+:“But you said you would.” <br>
+:“I most thertainly did not.” <br>
+:“You said you’d give it to me on the following day.”
+:“Tho I did. But not ''thith'' following day. Another one. In Theptember, I shouldn’t be thurprised.”
+It pains me, readers, to think an adult learned in the ways of the law could be vexed by such a thought.
+Firstly, ''a'' following [[business day]] is not the same thing as ''the'' following [[business day]]. That [[definite article]] restricts you to a single day.
+If you encounter such a fellow, and wish to engage on the argument — if you can resist the temptation to administer a restorative beating — you can always use the word “[[next]]”.
+{{sa}}
+*[[Shubtill v Director of Public Prosecutions]]
+{{egg}}
+{{draft}}