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What do you mean when you say "tonight"?
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I've noticed that I don't really get what's meant by "night" when watching American movies or even social experiments on youtube. Like before coming on here I've watched a prank vid where person 1 was like "are u free tonight?" and person 2 said "yeah" only for person 1 to go "ok then let's do something in an hour" when it's clearly still noon in the video.
I feel like I'm missing something here as people from my country don't communicate about time that way. Like are Americans just that flexible about time or what's "tonight" supposed to mean?!
Top Comment: It usually means in the evening once most people's work responsibilities are complete. "Do you want to hang out tonight?" usually means like going to dinner, drinks, a movie, etc. Some sort of social activity. I don't think I have seen, nor can I think of, an example around noon as you describe. Perhaps you could give such an example? I assume its just a movie thing you're overanalyzing a bit.