Maven@piefed.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoWhats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?message-squaremessage-square462fedilinkarrow-up1174arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1171arrow-down1message-squareWhats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?Maven@piefed.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square462fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareKrudler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 days agoPenultimate must send you into spasms as well
minus-squareI_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 days ago…how are people using penultimate incorrectly? Am I using it incorrectly? Does it not mean second to last?
minus-squareTrail@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 day 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-up7·2 days agoI didn’t even know it had an alternate or wrong meaning
minus-squareKrudler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days 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-up8·2 days 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-up5·2 days agoAt least the dictionary still lists the real meaning as valid.
minus-squarebizarroland@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 days agoDo we have any other words where adding the prefix “pen” to it means “next to”?
minus-squarepmk@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 days agoPen is more like “almost”, like in peninsula, almost an island.
minus-squareParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 hours agoDon’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-up2·6 hours agoI 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.
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!
Penis
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