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Re: Suggestion for Monster Arena
Don the Monkeyman, on host 142.179.222.100
Wednesday, November 17, 2004, at 16:09:25
Re: Suggestion for Monster Arena posted by Michael on Wednesday, November 17, 2004, at 14:28:19:
> > > You mean bi-weekly. Bi-monthly would be once every two months.
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> > ACTUALLY, it should be semi-monthly.
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> Nope. You're both slightly wrong.
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> Main Entry: 1bi·month·ly
> Function: adjective
> 1 : occurring every two months
> 2 : occurring twice a month : SEMIMONTHLY
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> > Don "In a game of pedanticism and one-upmanship, I almost never lose ;-p" Monkey
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> Mich-also, bimonthly doesn't have a hyphen-ael
Curses! Defeated at my own game! Although technically, I wasn't wrong in correcting LaZorra -- bi-weekly is still clearly incorrect. :-p
I'll go on the record saying that I don't like the second definition, though. What will this world come to if words are allowed to have two distinct and contradictory definitions!
Don "Yes, there's a little sarcasm there" Monkey
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