Overmorrow

[Monika]

Each state has its own, so it's difficult to know.

[gmalivuk]

The opposite is vorgestern, beforeyesterday, foreyesterday.

ereyesterday, actually, iirc.

[Monika]

ereyesterday, actually, iirc.

That would be correct, but would anyone understand it?

Overmorrow is pretty intuitive, isn't it?

What do native English speakers think about "foreyesterday" or "beforeyesterday" ... would that be understood?

[ZLVT]

Not really. I read the title and had NO idea what was going on. Most people don't know about übermorgen.

[ian]

My first thought on reading the title was Morrowind

[ZLVT]

Care to enlighten us on that reference?

[ian]

As in the computer game? There isn't really any reference other than that was just what I thought of.

[ZLVT]

...Clearly I have committed a faux pas and don't belong here.

[gmalivuk]

ereyesterday, actually, iirc.

That would be correct, but would anyone understand it?

Doesn't matter. Ereyesterday is (or at least was) an already existing English word, the other ones aren't. ("Ere" is an old word for "before".)

[mithridates]

Oh, hello thread on overmorrow from 2008. I just started getting irritated again that overmorrow still hasn't been restored to common use, and lo and behold there's a thread on it here. I wonder if a large enough group would be able to make #overmorrow a trending topic.

[Meteorswarm]

A noble project, and one that I support.

Well, overmorrow. It's even better for procrastination!

[tesseraktik]

Swedish has this word, as well: övermorgon
The day after the day after tomorrow is called överövermorgon, then överöverövermorgon, etc.

The word for "the day before yesterday" is förrgår, which is preceded by förrförrgår, etc.

[defaultusername]

Swedish has this word, as well: övermorgon
The day after the day after tomorrow is called överövermorgon, then överöverövermorgon, etc.

The word for "the day before yesterday" is förrgår, which is preceded by förrförrgår, etc.

'Övermorgon' and 'förrgår' literally meaning 'overmorning' and 'foreyesterday', respectively.

What I find interesting is that the Danes apparently reduplicate 'morning' rather than 'over' (or 'fore'), according to this:

And "i overmorgenmorgen" (meaning "the day after the day after tomorrow"), while not an official word, is also relatively common, as far as I'm concerned.

[Angua]

I like using it when I can. Eyre-yesterday is good too.

[tesseraktik]

Swedish has this word, as well: övermorgon
The day after the day after tomorrow is called överövermorgon, then överöverövermorgon, etc.

The word for "the day before yesterday" is förrgår, which is preceded by förrförrgår, etc.

'Övermorgon' and 'förrgår' literally meaning 'overmorning' and 'foreyesterday', respectively.

Indeed; good that you pointed that out.

What I find interesting is that the Danes apparently reduplicate 'morning' rather than 'over' (or 'fore'), according to this:

And "i overmorgenmorgen" (meaning "the day after the day after tomorrow"), while not an official word, is also relatively common, as far as I'm concerned.

The Danes are, of course, just out to mess with us. I mean, this is the same people that uses a vigesimal numeral system backwards.*

*My Swedish heritage compels me to hate on the Danes. No actual malice intended, of course; I eat a wienerbrød every day.

[Monika]

You may like http://satwcomic.com ^^

[tesseraktik]

You may like http://satwcomic.com ^^

That I do

I might also mention that in Klingon*, you simply add the suffix -leS to a number to say "days from now" and -Hu' for "days ago", so they sort of have it, too.
wa'leS = tomorrow
cha'leS = overmorrow
wejleS = overmorgenmorgen
loSleS = överöverövermorgon

Swedish has the word fjol which means "the previous year", and I've long used the word "fjolafjol" to refer to "the year before the previous one". However, it seem I'm the only one who uses that.

*You might be asking yourself: "Do Klingonists really have to bring Klingon up in every damn language-related discussion they take part in?" The answer to your question is, of course, HIja'.

[The Milkman]

Hebrew has the equivalent "מחרתיים" - /maẖʁataim/. But it's great that English has it.

Totally going to be using it.

[Gigano]

Overmorrow's literal translation to Dutch is "overmorgen", which is still used in Dutch to designate the day after tomorrow. We also use ereyesterday: "eergisteren" is used to designate the day before yesterday.

[Monika]

There we have it, it's the Dutchs' fault!

I still think foreyesterday would be so much better.

[Gigano]

There we have it, it's the Dutchs' fault!

What about die Deutschen, hmmm? With your übermorgen and vorgestern!

[Monika]

See? Vorgestern - foreyesterday. Perfect! Ereyesterday - eergisteren: Nobody will understand.