Okay, this troubles me:
bi·month·ly/bīˈmənTHlē/
Adjective: Occurring or produced twice a month or every two months.
Adverb: Twice a month or every two months.
Why does it mean both? That's stupid.
Wash: Little River just gets more colorful by the moment. What'll she do next? Zoe: Either blow us all up or rub soup in our hair. It's a toss-up. Wash: I hope she does the soup thing. It's always a hoot, and we don't all die from it.
'Objects In Space'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Aug 24, 2011 12:53:08 pm PDT #22018 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Ginger - Aug 24, 2011 12:55:21 pm PDT #22019 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
How did you find that, Ginger?
I couldn't find it by normal means, so I went to their Facebook page and found the link. The site is impossible.
Amy - Aug 24, 2011 12:56:19 pm PDT #22020 of 30001
Because books.
Every other month should be "semi-monthly", shouldn't it?
-t - Aug 24, 2011 12:57:27 pm PDT #22021 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Twice a month should be semi-monthly. Every two months should be bimonthly.
Sue - Aug 24, 2011 12:58:30 pm PDT #22022 of 30001
hip deep in pie
I have only understood it to mean every two months. It's very confusing if it means both.
Amy - Aug 24, 2011 12:58:44 pm PDT #22023 of 30001
Because books.
Or, what -t said!
Ginger - Aug 24, 2011 12:59:45 pm PDT #22024 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Why does it mean both?
As I understand it, it's for the same reason we have flammable and inflammable. Its original meaning was "every two months," but people kept using it as meaning twice a month, and the powers that be gave up.
Signed,
My twice-weekly college newspaper was semiweekly, not biweekly
-t - Aug 24, 2011 1:02:16 pm PDT #22025 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Someone explained to me the difference between flammable and inflammable once, and it made perfect sense, but then I forgot it.
It's possible that was a dream.
SailAweigh - Aug 24, 2011 1:03:47 pm PDT #22026 of 30001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
ita ! I've been doing the stairs at work, too. I started out only going down. Then I slowly started adding going up a floor at a time (I park on the third level and work on the seventh floor.) I've been going down every evening for a while and then I slowly started going up a floor at a time, week by week. I can make it 3-1/2 to the full four floors now every morning. I started doing that about a month and a half ago. Today, I only made it up two floors in the morning (the humidity was something fierce and the stairwells aren't air conditioned), but I went out for lunch with seven floors down and four floors up, so I feel I made up for my early morning wimpiness. I think it's a great way to build cardio endurance.
Ginger - Aug 24, 2011 1:06:04 pm PDT #22027 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Someone explained to me the difference between flammable and inflammable once, a
They both mean "this shit will burn." The original word was inflammable, from the Latin for "to set fire to." People kept thinking the "in" meant "not," so people labeling dangerous things went with "flammable."