The first German-speaker to say Übermorgen or Vorgestern wins some predictability points. ;)
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I just stumbled across two archaic English words: overmorrow and ereyesterday. Or, "the day after tomorrow" and "the day before yesterday".
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We should bring these back. They’re great.
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I know! Wiktionary labels them as "obsolete", though I know of no change to the relentless onward march of days that should make them so.
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Hebrew actually has those, and I've always wondered why they don't exist in English
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We still have "overmorgen" and "eergisteren" in Dutch.
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in French, we differenciate between "après-demain" (after tomorrow) vs "le surlendemain" (meaning 2d after, origin not fixed, ex in story)
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Polish also has those: pojutrze/przedwczoraj. Apparently English is the odd one in this respect.
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Even better, we can do popojutrze and przedprzedwczoraj ;)
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and we can say "après après-demain" but the literal trad of "in 3 days" is used more often I believe. And respctvly, "hier, avant-hier,..."
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interestingly, I don't now for an equivalent to "le surlendemain" in the past. I think we use "2d before // deux jours avant"
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