Maven@piefed.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoWhats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?message-squaremessage-square373fedilinkarrow-up1132arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1131arrow-down1message-squareWhats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?Maven@piefed.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square373fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareKrudler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 day agoPenultimate must send you into spasms as well
minus-squareI_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 day ago…how are people using penultimate incorrectly? Am I using it incorrectly? Does it not mean second to last?
minus-squareTrail@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 hours agoLearned that the hard way when I got off a train in the fucking middle of rural Japan with fucking nothing nearby and no cell signal.
minus-squarechocrates@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 day agoI didn’t even know it had an alternate or wrong meaning
minus-squareKrudler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 day agoMeanwhile I hear it used correctly maybe 5% of the time Seems like we all have different experiences with this word
minus-squarejimmux@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·24 hours agoI’m going to guess, based on the pattern of other misuses, they use it like “ultimate”, but with emphasis?
minus-squareteuto@lemmy.teuto.iculinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 day agoAt least the dictionary still lists the real meaning as valid.
minus-squarebizarroland@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 day agoDo we have any other words where adding the prefix “pen” to it means “next to”?
minus-squarepmk@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 day agoPen is more like “almost”, like in peninsula, almost an island.
Penultimate must send you into spasms as well
…how are people using penultimate incorrectly? Am I using it incorrectly? Does it not mean second to last?
Learned that the hard way when I got off a train in the fucking middle of rural Japan with fucking nothing nearby and no cell signal.
I didn’t even know it had an alternate or wrong meaning
Meanwhile I hear it used correctly maybe 5% of the time
Seems like we all have different experiences with this word
I’m going to guess, based on the pattern of other misuses, they use it like “ultimate”, but with emphasis?
Yes
At least the dictionary still lists the real meaning as valid.
Do we have any other words where adding the prefix “pen” to it means “next to”?
Pen is more like “almost”, like in peninsula, almost an island.
Penis
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