three days hence

What the fuck. 😭 But "next Thursday" clearly has a well-defined 7-day period. Given a bus stop with 20 minutes between buses, the "next bus" doesn't just start arbitrarily applying 10 minutes after the last bus left. Who would use it like this??

This doesn’t make sense from a linguistics standpoint though. So next Thursday is the Thursday this week, but next week isn’t this week, it’s the week after this one. So what’s the Thursday in that week, the next next Thursday? It just doesn’t work.

Anything in this week (Sunday-Saturday or Monday-Sunday) even stuff from a few days ago -> this .

Anything from last week -> last

Anything in next week -> next

It’s incredibly simple and it’s logically consistent and it works in every situation unless you are talking to someone from a different country that uses a different starting day. And even then it works the majority of the time.