That's such a great deal, ChiKat. You're a nice/good teacher!
Ok. Almost time to head out.
Hello? Gay now!
Willow ,'Showtime'
Spike's Bitches 42: Which question do you want me to answer first?
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
vw bug - Aug 12, 2008 1:24:32 pm PDT #1287 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
Toddson - Aug 12, 2008 1:24:40 pm PDT #1288 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
PowerPoint ... ptui! I'm facing our monthly (more or less) Bataan Death March of a meeting ... which is ALL PowerPoint. Last time - six and a half hours, the first half of which was people READING their slides. Slowly. Badly. With many pauses. Some of them seemed to have never seen the slides before (although most of them were just updates to the ones we've been using for ... four years). bah!
Vortex - Aug 12, 2008 1:27:05 pm PDT #1289 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Okay, we all know that there's correct grammar, and what people do anyway. When you see "bimonthly", do you think (or do you think people think) "every two months" or "twice a month"?
amych - Aug 12, 2008 1:27:38 pm PDT #1290 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Every two months.
Toddson - Aug 12, 2008 1:29:14 pm PDT #1291 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I go "huh? do you mean every two months or every two weeks?" ('cause I work with people who can't keep it straight. either.)
EpicTangent - Aug 12, 2008 1:29:19 pm PDT #1292 of 10001
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
I think every two months - but remember that this isn't exactly your "average reader" of a crowd in here. Are you afraid semi-monthly won't be understood?
ChiKat - Aug 12, 2008 1:32:54 pm PDT #1293 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
I go "huh? do you mean every two months or every two weeks?"
This is me. Because bimonthly can actually mean either.
I like the Oxford answer:
I'm afraid it means both! But in the publishing industry, it is used fairly consistently to mean 'every two months'. The same ambiguity affects biweekly and biyearly. If you want to be absolutely clear, use a phrase such as 'twice a week' or 'every two years'.
Kathy A - Aug 12, 2008 1:33:16 pm PDT #1294 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
The only reason I get bimonthly straight is remembering that "bicentennial" means two centuries.
amych - Aug 12, 2008 1:37:32 pm PDT #1295 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Where I work, people are paid either monthly or biweekly -- so bi is fairly firmly associated with two rather than a half for me, although my mind jumps to weeks rather than months. Without that kind of context, I'd have to agree with the advice to make it clearer.
omnis_audis - Aug 12, 2008 1:43:08 pm PDT #1296 of 10001
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
sure, leave it to the guy on crutches to find the one patch of slickery mud on the roof. Slip and go boom. Head hit concrete wall. Thankfully not hard, or there would be mega ow. All I could think, as I was sliding non-stop down was "o dear god don't let me bleed to death up here, nobody would look for me up here". Clearly it wasn't a fast fall, since I had so much time to think about this on the way down. Now my right side is covered in mud. So much for the shortcut to the bathroom. So much for going to the party tonight. Don't wanna go with mud or minor scrapes.
:: grumbles at Frank Lloyd Wright for his fucked up design of a building :: FUNCTION FIRST PEOPLE!!