Aria~Bird

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Anxiety Abundant, Deeply Depressive

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Trans bird girl trying her best! 26, Ace, and looking for ways to retry my younger years.

Aria~Bird @Fancy-Pigeon8/14/2023, 7:22 PM

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Natalie @nex38/14/2023, 3:57 AM

linguistic descriptivism is correct 99% of the time but for the word "biweekly" specifically the world would be tangibly better if a cabal of dictionary authors just arbitrarily chose one of the widely used meanings to deem correct

#linguistics

wiggler @wiggles8/14/2023, 6:41 AM

i collect words like this, with two incompatible and ideally opposite definitions! i also have “sanctioned” and “unlockable”

#wait it’s all context clues? / always was

Anschel @Anschel8/14/2023, 7:55 AM

Contranyms! My favorite is probably "oversight", because it makes me giggle every time I hear about an "oversight committee"

Aisling @DiscoDeerDiary8/14/2023, 4:04 PM

My brain's got a whole frickin oversight committee

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in reply to @nex3's post:

Lapis the Nevrean @lapisnev8/14/2023, 3:58 AM

Every-other-weekly seems to be the popular definition but twice-a-weekly is what looking at the word makes me think it means

lily @lilith8/14/2023, 4:00 AM

every week you’re attracted to at least two genders

emily, literal actual sylveon 🏳️‍⚧️ ΘΔ @hi-im-emily8/14/2023, 5:09 AM

"twice-weekly" and "fortnightly" and the problem is gone

Amy Dentata @amydentata8/14/2023, 7:17 AM

Traditional and simplified biweekly

Frik 🏳️‍🌈🎗️@frik8/14/2023, 5:39 PM

The very, very prescriptivist ROYAL SPANISH ACADEMY very clearly states that Biyearly and Bimonthly can only mean twice a year/month.

Biweekly is still accepted as twice a week and every two weeks, though.

Natalie @nex38/14/2023, 6:12 PM

that's horrible

in reply to @wiggles's post:

~@modulusshift8/14/2023, 6:49 AM

Surely no one actually uses "unlockable" as "unable to be locked", that's terrible! I can only imagine it maybe working in like a lock-on targeting system? But I'd rather say "untargetable" personally

Sanctioned is great tho haha. I suppose it's supposed to be "approved" and "approved with conditions" but the conditions are the point instead of the approval

Anschel @Anschel8/14/2023, 4:07 PM

I could imagine in parallel programming a resource that cannot be locked might be called "unlockable"

in reply to @DiscoDeerDiary's post:

Anschel @Anschel8/14/2023, 5:05 PM

Man do I know the feeling