Maven@piefed.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoWhats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?message-squaremessage-square286fedilinkarrow-up134arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up134arrow-down1message-squareWhats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?Maven@piefed.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square286fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareKrudler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoPenultimate must send you into spasms as well
minus-squarechocrates@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoI didn’t even know it had an alternate or wrong meaning
minus-squareKrudler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month 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-up1·1 month agoI’m going to guess, based on the pattern of other misuses, they use it like “ultimate”, but with emphasis?
minus-squareI_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month ago…how are people using penultimate incorrectly? Am I using it incorrectly? Does it not mean second to last?
minus-squarebizarroland@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 month agoDo we have any other words where adding the prefix “pen” to it means “next to”?
minus-squarepmk@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoPen is more like “almost”, like in peninsula, almost an island.
Penultimate must send you into spasms as well
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?
…how are people using penultimate incorrectly? Am I using it incorrectly? Does it not mean second to last?
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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