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Oh no, it's totally ambiguous, and I hate it. Does "the next stop" mean the one that we're just closing to? Or the one after that?

Even worse is people trying to communicate how many stops until destination - it's just inviting the listener to be off by one wrt. the speaker. Myself, I gave up on trying to say things like "we're getting off in 3 stops", because my brain just locks up trying to decide whether I should say "in 3 stops", or "in 2 stops", or "in 4 stops".




"At the third stop".




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