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"El miércoles que viene empieza la Semana Santa."
Translation:Next Wednesday Holy Week starts.
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Duo seems to lack recognition of a great many English constuctions and conventions and marks things wrong which are usually, better renderings than those they provide as correct translations.
DL is built to be a successful teaching tool only if its users make corrections as they go through the program. The first people through are guinea pigs, so to speak, with later users standing on the shoulders of giants (that would be us).
Miles! Really?? Well, I'd best pick up my pace since that sleep isn't exactly on the far horizon for me anymore... (Love your allusions TilEulenspiegel!)
@Tom: Don't get excited. At my age I harbor few illusions about anything, but as to allusions, TilEulenspiegel alluded above to Robert Frost's "Stopping by the Woods...". (Who is Michael?)
And Duo has acknowledged that they now accept several corrections/additions I've made to their accepted answers, so they do, in fact, look at the problems reported and correct their database as appropriate. (Whew! Glad to know I'm transforming from guinea pig to giant. Is that like ugly duckling to swan?!)
You came, you saw, you corrected mistakes. But there are miles to go before you sleep...
In English 'this Wednesday' is the nearest Wednesday to come, and 'next Wednesday' is the one after that. Where I come from anyway...
"Next Wednesday" is ambiguous almost everywhere from my experience =/
I tend to use it to mean the nearest Wednesday, but it certainly can mean Wednesday in the next full week or the Wednesday after the soonest one.
True. Which is why we usually have to clarify exactly which "next" day we mean!
The next whatever day IS the coming whatever day. If, as you say, the reference is to the day of the FOLLOWING week, then we specify that, e.g. "a week from next/this coming Tuesday", If you really mean the second Tuesday from today, then you usually say, "not THIS Tuesday, but the next one", from which we can infer that THIS Tuesday IS actually the next Tuesday. This clarification usually occurs when we're only 2-3 days out from the referenced one.
"the holy week begins on the coming Wednesday" Anyway, I always think "que viene" as "the coming" and "el proximo" as "next"
This is one of several sentences that seem backwards (passive?) Most english speakers would say "Holy Week starts next Wednesday." When is this construction used?
