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[seabream]

I'm curious about a word usage pattern. I've seen the phrase "the week after" used as

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[aedifica]

I'm confused. I read your brief statements of A and B as equivalent to each other, and I don't understand the expanded explanation.

[seabream]

Oh. Let me try that again.

In A) 'next week' and 'the week after' are equivalent
whereas in
B) 'the week after' = 'next week + 1 week'
and I've seen both used.

Alternate expansion: Say Week One (4-11), Week Two (12-18), Week Three (19-25)
If subject date in conversation = the 8th of the month
in A, either of 'the next week' or 'the week after' would move the subject date to any time in Week Two
in B, 'the next week' would shift the subject to Week Two while 'the week after' would
shift it to Week Three (i.e.: The week after the next week.).