Maven@piefed.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours agoWhats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?message-squaremessage-square186fedilinkarrow-up170arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up170arrow-down1message-squareWhats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?Maven@piefed.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours agomessage-square186fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareKrudler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·11 hours agoPenultimate must send you into spasms as well
minus-squareI_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·9 hours ago…how are people using penultimate incorrectly? Am I using it incorrectly? Does it not mean second to last?
minus-squarechocrates@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·9 hours agoI didn’t even know it had an alternate or wrong meaning
minus-squareKrudler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 hours 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-up1·4 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-up5·11 hours agoAt least the dictionary still lists the real meaning as valid.
minus-squarebizarroland@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-210 hours agoDo we have any other words where adding the prefix “pen” to it means “next to”?
minus-squarepmk@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 hours 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?
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?
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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