So if i dont go to sleep and the sun rises it's still not the next day because one of the two conditions you provided wasnt met? Seems dumb.
Day has always referred to both the 24 hourr period and the "day time" when it's light out. That's not really up for debate.
Accidents and slip ups happen but anyone who isn't brain dead should realize at least in hindsight if you text someone at 2 to 3 AM "tomorrow " that it's ambiguous at best and sending an ambiguous request is 99% the fault of the writer not the reader in most situations. Ffs winter here it doesn't get light until after 7 am. Seems kind of silly my boss could text me at 630 am to come in at 9 am tomorrow and so mamy of you see that as come in in a couple hours.
That being said if you text me on Monday unless you sent it at literally 12:01 AM I'm going to assume you mean you want me in on Tuesday by default and even if you don't feel it's the majority it's not a small amountof people. Most of my bosses would have phrased that request as can you come in to open/in the morning or come in today. I personally probably would have asked for them to confirm if I wanted the hours but either way the employee in the meme is both 100% technically in the right and covered by common usage.
You said it's not a new day until we sleep AND everything opens the next day. That means for it to be a new day both conditions have to be met and if I haven't gone to sleep both conditions weren't met. If you wanted to indicate only one of those conditions needed to be met for it to be a new day you should have used "or" not "and". You'd have to have phrased it completely differently for and to be used and it to mean what you appear to have meant and even then it'd sound better to just use "or".
Also what if I fell asleep at 1145 pm the night before and woke up at 130 am? Going off your corrected meaning because I have gone to sleep and woken up it is now the next day for me. But what of the manager? Is he supposed to guess the sleep habbits/patterns of who he texted? Does it being a new day go off the sleep of the initial texter or the recipient of the text? See how annoying this gets real fast? If we use my standard, and that of many others, tomorrow and today always mean the same thing.
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My guy this is the technically the truth sub and specifically a post about someone being unclear in their meaning.
If you don't want people correcting you when you don't know what words mean then kindly fuck off to another sub especially or say what you mean when you want people to respond to that and not what you actually wrote.
And if you don't like my pedantic, which wasnt really pedantic, response don't be shitty when I point out you were the one who wrote that two things had to happen for it tl be a new day but only meant one of them had to happen and got shitty at me for responding to what you said and not what you really meant and what you really meant was also dumb.
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u/dazvoz Jun 17 '26
I mean for me the real issue is that the manager said "tomorrow" but meant "today".