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[-] Chocrates@lemmy.world 48 points 2 months ago

Lol, this is why I started using fortnightly, to me biweekly means every two weeks, but nobody else I work with agrees

[-] slothrop@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 months ago

As opposed to semi-weekly?

[-] Chocrates@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

If anyone suggested that I have forgotten! That's a good idea

[-] Lumun@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 months ago

I just avoid the word entirely at work. 'Twice a week' and 'twice a month' take the same amount of time to say. Even 'every two weeks' is barely longer.

[-] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah unfortunately English painted itself into a corner on this front, and unavoidable ambiguity is a dealbreaker for scheduling, so… RIP biweekly.

[-] degen@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

You just made me think of Fortnitely, so thanks for that I guess. Somehow I think it will always mean 'about 8 years ago' lol

I agree biweekly is every-other, but biannual means the same as semiannual to me, and I don't know where that leaves me... There's also biennial for every-other though.

In any case, I propose biweekly and byweekly cause you pass one by. Not any better spoken, but still.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Where do you work? I think biweekly has taken to mean 2 weeks, I expect the exception is UK.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Bicyclists are two gender fluid people sharing a single peddle-powered contraption.

[-] degen@midwest.social 9 points 2 months ago

Our preferred pronouns are Bi/Cy

[-] sevan@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago

Obviously, twice per sexual would be semi-sexual.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 6 points 2 months ago

isnt "semi-" partial? so half a sexual? this is the the second time today i've been confused by this.

[-] molten@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Twice per year would be semi-yearly?

[-] blujan@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 months ago
[-] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 1 points 2 months ago

As opposed to semi-ennial. How could anyone be confused by this?

[-] DoubleDongle@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Nah, it's like a multi-tool situation. Does every kind of sexual but isn't very good at any of them.

[-] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 2 points 2 months ago

Someone’s not an ambi-turner

[-] echolalia@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

This is why you use semisexual instead of bisexual. It removes the ambiguity

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

why not hemisexual instead of hetero.

[-] weird@sub.wetshaving.social 2 points 2 months ago
[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

tri-tetra, penta, septasexual.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 5 points 2 months ago

Huh. I guess no one says "monosexual"

[-] moody@lemmings.world 4 points 2 months ago

You don't need the mono- if there's only one. It's just sexual.

[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

No that is ambigous, it could also mean the opposite of asexual (aka allosexual)

[-] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 1 points 2 months ago

And the ambiguity fits bisexuality better anyway. It’s useful too. You can use it to cut the knot on the bi-vs-pan debate, for example, or avoid silly arguments about gender distribution of partners, or say “nunya,” etc.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 months ago

Sometimes you do. Like monologue. Monogamy. Hm but I guess the root isn't a whole word in those cases.

[-] spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

"No mono" doesn't have the same ring to it. Unless you're indicating that you don't have mono, in which case, it's... informative?

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

mononucleosis.

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I schedule biweekly meetings biweekly.

[-] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago
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