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Aug 4, 2023 11:30 PM
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Syovere
#1
Hashbrown123
The Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con!
RARusk
#1 - The Darkness is a really good game. One of Starbreeze Studios finest.
ifIScreamIntoTheVoid
ITS BOTH. AND IF YOU SWITCH TO SEMI, SOMETIMES ITS BOTH, AND SOMETIMES IT CHANGES DEPENDING ON WHAT PERIOD OF TIME YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, LIKE ITS DIFFERENT IF YOU SAY SEMI-WEEKLY, SEMI-MONTHLY, OR SEMI YEARLY.
HonestCommentFarmer
#4 That's clearly the egg from a Star-Bellied Sneetch
crapybarra
Bi: means two Semi: means half So Bi-monthly= two months Semi-monhly means 1 per half month or twice a month.
eternaldragon6661
#1
Raileks
Actually the ball was #4.
TexanSailor
#5 I am so confused at the map
DidItForScience
I've never seen a forklift with seat belts. The ones where I work have other safety features though. Like lights that project a safety perimeter on the floor around them.
InboxMeYourHDGIFs
#1 Red-Eyes Black Gecko
Pilgrymm
#5 ok I don't get this one, what is going on here?
micuu
my friend also doesn't get it.
ShiftyBat
#1 Joke's on y'all I have been listening to the Darkness since '04. Even got a VIP pass to meet them in person. Swell blokes.
TheRealLouzander
#2 Flamy Grant's music is reeeeeeally good.
Raileks
#6 she's blushing on the forklift because even though she's an avatar of lust she wasn't prepared for that level of depravity.
Quixus
#3 but does Beyoncé float? And if she does, is she a witch?
Darrlyn85
Only if she weighs the same as a duck
folded13
She did a public weighing many years ago, and came in at 2.61 Mallards, which means she is not a witch, but she may be in one of the wisewoman categories.
BloodyMittens
A friend of mind needs helps understanding #5
JeevesMk2
When a mommy bot and a daddy bot love each other very much, they shit out random bits of content stolen from other posts.
baldorr
Same. Also #4.
somethingdark
dragonball
GingerImgurBinger
Dragonball
DCPrime
We have a friend in common!
BloodyMittens
I think #4 is supposed to be a reference to a dragon ball from the show DragonBall.
doppelfisch
Shows what I know. It made me think of Dr. Seuss. I know that was a blue star but still.
MySushi
Bimonthly is twice a month, just as biannually is twice a year and bisexual is two gender orientations in one being and bisection is division into two equal parts and binary is having two elements
blobmcgee7721
And then bi-weekly would be?
MySushi
Twice in a week, its a fairly simple pattern to extend.
blobmcgee7721
Yes but if you told someone the payment is on a bi-weekly basis it refers to every 2 weeks. As you mentioned bi means 2 which would be translated to 2 weeks or 2 months. Semi means half which would fit your definition much better as semi monthly is half a month or twice in one month.
MySushi
The correct word to convey something like that would be "the payment is every fortnight" or bi-monthly, as there are around 4 weeks in a month +few spare days or simply say you get paid every two weeks. People are dumb and can't follow basic rules, not when it comes to taking care of their health or driving or using correct language logic. It is best to ask for clarification when they use jargon and sometimes even common diction, as half the time they don't know what they're talking about
Marikhen
Reminds me of a conversation I had at work today where I pointed out that if someone commented on a "short" crate you could legitimately ->
Marikhen
1) ask, "Is it shorter or is it shorter?" because we use "short" for both long and tall resulting in only 2.5 dimensional pairings.
Marikhen
3) #7 that is.
Marikhen
2) Longer/shorter, wider/thinner, taller/??? Well, taller/shorter, but shorter was already used so we should really have something else.
Interleaver11111111
#6 certificated?
folded13
Certified is when you pass the class and get your piece of paper. Certificated is when the person who's been doing it for 40 years watches you do it, then comes by and pounds the big rubber stamp on your piece of paper. Way more official.
Marsupialmessiah
Ehhhh its english. Certified is the right word but certificated is just the left word... you understanded.
SlyeFox
Certified and certificated are two different English terms. While the latter means being awarded with a certificate as a symbol or >>
SlyeFox
>> proof of completion or attainment, the former is the act of recognition of having been proven to by issuance of a certificate.
Interleaver11111111
ChaoticFlapjack
Googled it and still don't know
GooseMountains
It's #1. I know it doesn't make any sense, but it really does.
jetact12
Happening every 2 months is semi monthly. Bi monthly is 2x a month
StevieTheAussie
2 is literally just “fortnightly “.
suplusangeregele
Think bi-weekly and it becomes clearer (to be sure, weekly is every two weeks).
zebraspotsarenotstripes
Bi weekly could mean both as well.
AluminiumFalcon
Looked it up just to be sure you're 100% right it gives both answers
ObsidianLake
I just remember what a semi circle is.
HedonistBeard
Same deal with biannual, biweekly, bisexual. They mean both.
lemmonjello
I read it like a name bim-onthly
TheElusiveEnchilada
AnonOmis1000
It's whatever semi- isn't
ShiftyBat
What's all the confusion? It's when you have to pay your monthly bisexual club dues.
Telleryn
it really just needs to be retired as a word
lemmonjello
We could do bymonthly and bimonthly
Telleryn
or twice-monthly and every other month
harthram
I propose "semimonthly" for twice a month
crapybarra
That's the correct usage. Semiannual, semimonthly. No need to propose it.
DigitalPizza
This is correct usage. That's how I remember bimonthly, because it's the other one: every two months. Source: I used to work with periodicals/magazines at the library.
KingORedLions
I propose "bifortnightly" for something that happens once a week.
SilentShift
No no, bifortnightly means every 2 fortnights! What you clearly mean is semi-fortnightly.
mafiacarstarter
It's actually 1, but like "literally," so many people used it wrong so often that several dictionaries just went with it and added the wrong definition because of usage.
JurgenWindcallerz
Just like the word extroverted. It’s extrAverted . But it’s been used wrong so many times, it’s accepted. Gonna order myself an extro large burger now…
StevieTheAussie
Well if it was 2, then that would literally just be the exact same thing as fortnightly; happening once every two weeks, aka twice a month.
kaoticgirl
Americans don't use the term fortnight very much, so that's only helpful regionally. I have been doing my part to broaden the usage though, so we'll get there eventually.
StatmanIbrahimovic
Then we have to tackle biannual
HedonistBeard
It's actually both, because when it becomes so widely used it's in the dictionary it's officially correct to use both.
mafiacarstarter
Either, not both. Unless your goal is serious confusion.
HedonistBeard
In a single context, sure, although being that confusing wouldn't necessarily be WRONG - just evil.
Afewflowers
Lexicographers do not govern the use of language, they simply document what is occurring
bearatrooper
SuccessfulCrab
I bet there's a sweet lexicographer drama thread somewhere on the internet I need it.
mafiacarstarter
Considering that lexicographers would know that the prefix bi- means 2, and that the suffix -ly means "in the manner of", they would all be aware that the word itself means in the manner of 2 months, much like semimonthly means in the manner of half a month, there would be exactly zero debate about what the meaning of the word is. Any potential drama would all be about whether or not the word bimonthly has been lost to illiteracy, as so many other words have been.
zerovanity59
Native speakers don't make mistakes; they evolve the language.
Higure
Written language has a bunch of rules. Spoken language has only one: Make yourself understood.
mafiacarstarter
Clearly, here they're failing at the rule.
StarSumiaki
If enough people adopt a wrong usage as part of common parlance, I suppose that technically makes it a right usage.
chansuke
All part of a living language.
the3th
if we can break a word...we can fix a word...
FaxCelestis
If you can dodge a wrench…
StarSumiaki
Just don't try it with slurs, lol
leperoutcastunclean
We're taking it back.