(Conlangs) The day before the day before yesterday and the day after the day after tomorrow...

[lsd]

About deictic words for days a certain few days ago or a certain few days from now.

If yesterday is today-1 and tomorrow is today+1,
English has the archaic or obsolescent or rare “overmorrow” for the day after tomorrow (today+2),
and both archaic “ereyesterday” and neologistic “nudiustertian” for the day before yesterday (today-2).

Several familiar natlangs have less awkward, less rare, less marked words for today+-2. Apparently German’s look like English’s but aren’t marked, as they are in English. (Is that correct?)

Apparently, several familiar natlangs, have similarly unmarked words for “the day before the day before yesterday” (today-3) and “the day after the day after tomorrow” (today+3).

what about your conlang....

[eldin raigmore]

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[Reyzadren]

griuskant (without script here)

deggauae deggauae deggau un skansgauae skansgauae skansgau.
/'dəggaue 'dəggaue 'dəggau un 'skansgaue 'skansgaue 'skansgau/
back-day-POSS back-day-POSS back-day and front-day-POSS front-day-POSS front-day
The day before the day before yesterday and the day after the day after tomorrow.

[lsd]

as for me, in my philosophical loglang,

I use negative ordinals for yesterday (-1st day) and its predecessors,
and positive ordinals for tomorrow (2nd day) and its following...

but I can also use only positive ordinals only
if I speak about past days (1st past day = yesterday)
or future days (1st future day = tomorrow)...

Spoiler:

(why do you mark conlang threads and not natlang threads in a conlanger forum...)

[Khemehekis]

Heh, I already made an "in my conlang" post in the natlang thread:

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=7559&p=311093#p311093

[Larryrl]

In Shu, I approached it differently. And, in so doing, I found some mistakes in my lexicon where I transposed some letters which I have since corrected and re-uploaded. You can get it herehttps://www.dropbox.com/s/ubfktu5u5ho9g ... r.pdf?dl=0. So anyway

Spoiler:

YESTERDAY
TAZEOKITA Literally, The day before today

TODAY, THIS DAY
KI TA

tOMORROW
TARESHKITA Literally, The day after today

BEFORE, PRIOR TO NOW
ZEO

BEFORE YESTERDAY
ZEO TAZEOKITA

AFTER
RESH

AFTER TOMORROW
RESH TARESHKITA

Now I simply use a number at the beginning of ZEO TAZEOKITA and RESH TARESHKITA. So, one day after tomorrow is WAN RESH TARESHKITA. One day before yesterday is WAN ZEO TAZEOKITA.

I also did the same thing for week

Spoiler:

WEEK NIET This is if you are just talking about a week and it does not matter which week.

WEEK (THIS WEEK) KINIET

LAST WEEK WAN NIET ZEO KINIET

NEXT WEEK WAN NIET RESH KINIET

FRIDAY WEEK VITA WAN NIET RESH KINIET