Lol, this is why I started using fortnightly, to me biweekly means every two weeks, but nobody else I work with agrees
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As opposed to semi-weekly?
If anyone suggested that I have forgotten! That's a good idea
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.
Yeah unfortunately English painted itself into a corner on this front, and unavoidable ambiguity is a dealbreaker for scheduling, so… RIP biweekly.
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.
Where do you work? I think biweekly has taken to mean 2 weeks, I expect the exception is UK.
Bicyclists are two gender fluid people sharing a single peddle-powered contraption.
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Nah, it's like a multi-tool situation. Does every kind of sexual but isn't very good at any of them.
Someone’s not an ambi-turner
Obviously, twice per sexual would be semi-sexual.
isnt "semi-" partial? so half a sexual? this is the the second time today i've been confused by this.
Twice per year would be semi-yearly?
Semi-annual
As opposed to semi-ennial. How could anyone be confused by this?
This is why you use semisexual instead of bisexual. It removes the ambiguity
why not hemisexual instead of hetero.
semidemisexual
tri-tetra, penta, septasexual.
hexual
Huh. I guess no one says "monosexual"
You don't need the mono- if there's only one. It's just sexual.
No that is ambigous, it could also mean the opposite of asexual (aka allosexual)
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.
Sometimes you do. Like monologue. Monogamy. Hm but I guess the root isn't a whole word in those cases.
"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?
mononucleosis.
I schedule biweekly meetings biweekly.
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