Last (day) should be after 7 days have passed.
I've noticed how misleading the 'last (day)' messages are; and should really be fixed.
Ex. how it is now:
Today is Wed. If tom said "Hello there" on Monday, he had said it *last Monday*
Ex. how it SHOULD be:
Today is Wed. If Bob said "General Kenobi!" on Monday, he had said it Monday.
I think that the term 'last (day)' should occur after a week has passed from that post; rather than any day after the time it was posted, up to whatever the cutoff is.
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Hey there!
Unfortunately I must disagree with your idea entirely.
Why?
Well... because, technically... "last" defines as the "most recent" or "the item at the end, (final)"
So in a given week I typed these messages...
On Monday I typed "Hey, Sarah, how's your day?!
Tuesday I replied with, "Hey, thanks! You too, take care man."
Then come Wednesday I said "Hello there, Jhonny."
Thursday I said "HE'S DEAD JIM." (Star-trek fans get it)
Come Friday... all of these days are "LAST" {(XXXX)day} because they are the most recent of that day.
If we want to talk about 'MONDAY' on 'MONDAY' sure, we could say "LAST" MONDAY (assume you don't count the current standing day). But come the very next day 'that' Monday you mentioned or referred too is no longer 'LAST' Monday. It now must be mentioned as 'the Monday "BEFORE LAST" because 'yesterday' was 'LAST' (the most recent) Monday.
MORAL...
The 'LAST' usage is perfectly fine.More reasoning...
Sure we could mention it as 'MONDAY' but that doesn't tell you which Monday it was. That just says... it was on a Monday. But if we mention a Monday from over 7 days ago as 'LAST'(the most recent) it's incorrect because after 7 days have past it's no longer the most recent Monday and clearly it's was not the final Monday because we just had another.
If you use 'last' as 'FINAL' then you can say it's THE final Monday. Assuming it really is the "FINAL" Monday.
Regards,
ShaMe-12 -
The argument has nothing to do with "reason" and is entirely based on how the phrase "last [day]" is used colloquially in English. It's much more confusing for native English speakers to display these days as Discord currently does.
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I'm sorry ShaMe but English isn't completely working with logic.
In my opinion, "last [day]" would refer to the [day] of the previous week, and if you think saying "[day]" is not specific enough, there's "this [day]" to refer to [day] of the current week.
Also, no one is stupid enough to think "[day]" means the [day] in the future in the message date context. Given that, if you add "last", it simply makes it confusing as usually we don't need it for the current week. You can refer to how Facebook deals with this, I never got confused with Facebook.
Whether you agree or not with the native English speakers (I'm not saying that's me), I think you should still display the actual date when we mouseover it or something. That should at least helped with confusions on this misleading usage.
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