Did you miss the full context? First BC said
You can't say that and reasonably expect people to interpret it as "any conceivable number of days". If I were to put numbers to that, I'd say 13 days or less (ie. less than 2 week
s). Of course, this is BC so I know better than to try to get anything concrete from an ambiguous statement.
And naturally BC went somewhere no-one could have predicted, and said that:
So apparently two week
s is not week
s.
So apparently two weeks + 6 days (ie 20 days) is not more than two weeks!
And it's not even really his tortured logic that gets me, but rather the arrogance of acting like it should be universally accepted and understood.
You just can't make this shit up.