Maven@piefed.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · il y a 11 moisWhats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?message-squaremessage-square555fedilinkarrow-up1184arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1180arrow-down1message-squareWhats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?Maven@piefed.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · il y a 11 moismessage-square555fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareKrudler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·il y a 11 moisPenultimate must send you into spasms as well
minus-squareI_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·il y a 11 mois…how are people using penultimate incorrectly? Am I using it incorrectly? Does it not mean second to last?
minus-squareTrail@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·il y a 11 moisLearned 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-up7·il y a 11 moisI didn’t even know it had an alternate or wrong meaning
minus-squareKrudler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·il y a 11 moisMeanwhile I hear it used correctly maybe 5% of the time Seems like we all have different experiences with this word
minus-squarejimmux@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·il y a 11 moisI’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·il y a 11 moisAt least the dictionary still lists the real meaning as valid.
minus-squarebizarroland@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-2il y a 11 moisDo we have any other words where adding the prefix “pen” to it means “next to”?
minus-squarepmk@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·il y a 11 moisPen is more like “almost”, like in peninsula, almost an island.
minus-squareParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·il y a 11 moisDon’t start, the other lemming just taught us it’s almost an isle; island is a completely different unrelated word that they shoved an s in by mistake
minus-squarepmk@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·il y a 11 moisI see, I thought they were synonyms, english isn’t my first language.
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
😔
Don’t start, the other lemming just taught us it’s almost an isle; island is a completely different unrelated word that they shoved an s in by mistake
I see, I thought they were synonyms, english isn’t my first language.
In fairness, so did they!