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specialkid8 12/05/22 6:56:01 PM #1: |
When has the second to last thing ever been that significant? When did someone sit down and say "the last thing is cool but what about what comes right before that? We need a big ass word that means second to last thing". --- https://i.imgur.com/AUXKMK4.jpg ... Copied to Clipboard!
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SneakyGoomba 12/05/22 6:58:04 PM #2: |
Just another word them fancy big city folk like to use to feel superior to the working man ... Copied to Clipboard!
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BloodMoon7 12/05/22 7:00:42 PM #3: |
It's pretty significant actually. It's the first thing that isn't, that's why penultimate means second to last but ultimate doesn't neccesarily mean first. --- My maid will hear about this. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Hambo 12/05/22 7:01:52 PM #4: |
I remember it coming up in phonology classes when talking about the penultimate and antepenultimate syllables of words. --- Hambo's alt. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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xGhostchantx 12/05/22 7:05:50 PM #5: |
Because people like to think that using Latin derived terms in place of natural English makes them smarter. Imagine if you approached job adverts like these smrat people. 'Ab initio, you will be required to [X] inter alia [Y], recompense discussed de futuro and de jure' --- Tiw - Min scild, min sweord, min rihtwisness, min dryhten ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Robot2600 12/05/22 7:07:07 PM #6: |
xGhostchantx posted... Because people like to think that using Latin derived terms in place of natural English makes them smarter. "derived" ooo so fancy slick talker --- --- ... Copied to Clipboard!
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tri-sapphire 12/05/22 7:07:14 PM #7: |
It pops up often enough in publication that I actually went and looked up the definition when I was younger. I've only ever done that for a handful of words, usually just skirting by while using inference when reading. --- "If history is to change, let it change! If the world is to be destroyed, so be it! If my fate is to be destroyed...I must simply laugh!!."- Magus ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Scotty_Rogers 12/05/22 7:07:52 PM #8: |
It sounds cool. --- Da GOAT Famalam 2023! ... Copied to Clipboard!
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specialkid8 12/05/22 7:08:12 PM #9: |
Hambo posted... I remember it coming up in phonology classes when talking about the penultimate and antepenultimate syllables of words.Thank you for sending me down a small rabbit hole showing that this chain goes to at least propreantepenultimate. I hope your next meal is slightly undercooked. --- https://i.imgur.com/AUXKMK4.jpg ... Copied to Clipboard!
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DeadBankerDream 12/05/22 7:08:12 PM #10: |
How else would you describe the best fountain pen? --- "That thick shaft that causes women to shudder!" ... Copied to Clipboard!
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DB_Insider 12/05/22 7:08:19 PM #11: |
Penis+ultimate=penultimate --- https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/179741-omega-labyrinth/79814320 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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FigureOfSpeech 12/05/22 7:09:06 PM #12: |
xGhostchantx posted... Because people like to think that using Latin derived terms in place of natural English makes them smarter. https://www.dictionary.com/e/word-origins/#:~:text=About%2080%20percent%20of%20the,have%20Greek%20or%20Latin%20roots. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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xGhostchantx 12/05/22 7:11:15 PM #14: |
Robot2600 posted... "derived" ooo so fancy slick talker I try to do away with Latinates, but it's been drilled into me because of school (B.Ling) FigureOfSpeech posted... https://www.dictionary.com/e/word-origins/#:~:text=About%2080%20percent%20of%20the,have%20Greek%20or%20Latin%20roots. I haven't read this entirely, but it's slightly misleading (I'm a B.Ling focused on old and middle English, see sig). Everyday speech is over 80% English, it's moreso when you're getting into technical and modern terms (i.e., 'police' being one of the most common words for police worldwide, regardless of substrate/primary influence); though there's a lot of Anglicized Latin terms these days, and being naturalized they're considered modern 'English' words. With a thesaurus and some mindfulness (care, consideration, in concern to) and mindliness (creativity, spirit), you can push that to over 90%. --- Tiw - Min scild, min sweord, min rihtwisness, min dryhten ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Illuminoius 12/05/22 7:30:55 PM #16: |
discussion of second-to-lasts comes up a lot ... Copied to Clipboard!
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xGhostchantx 12/05/22 7:36:28 PM #17: |
Illuminoius posted... discussion of second-to-lasts comes up a lot Tbh, if modern English had kept stricter Germanic conventions, the endebyrdlcu etal (ordinal) would be twother (from twaer, unattested but compounded naturally; there's others that could be used but they'd make little aesthetic sense in modern English), two + other, 'the other second' --- Tiw - Min scild, min sweord, min rihtwisness, min dryhten ... Copied to Clipboard!
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DeadBankerDream 12/05/22 7:42:12 PM #18: |
xGhostchantx posted... Tbh, if modern English had kept stricter Germanic conventions, the endebyrdlcu etal (ordinal) would be twother (from twaer, unattested but compounded naturally; there's others that could be used but they'd make little aesthetic sense in modern English), two + other, 'the other second'I hate everything about this post. --- "That thick shaft that causes women to shudder!" ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Verdekal 12/05/22 7:43:38 PM #19: |
False final boss? --- Don't tease the octopus, kids! ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Verdekal 12/05/22 7:45:47 PM #20: |
Illuminoius posted... discussion of second-to-lasts comes up a lotWouldn't that be the one before the penultimate? --- Don't tease the octopus, kids! ... Copied to Clipboard!
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DeadBankerDream 12/05/22 7:47:28 PM #21: |
Verdekal posted... Wouldn't that be the one before the penultimate?...What do you think penultimate means? --- "That thick shaft that causes women to shudder!" ... Copied to Clipboard!
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ellis123 12/05/22 7:49:46 PM #22: |
Verdekal posted... Wouldn't that be the one before the penultimate?"Second to last" means "the one before the last," which is just the effective definition of penultimate. --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Hambo 12/05/22 7:57:16 PM #23: |
specialkid8 posted... Thank you for sending me down a small rabbit hole showing that this chain goes to at least propreantepenultimate. I hope your next meal is slightly undercooked.https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/6/3/AADHstAAD9PP.jpg Also the undercooked food thing is a beautiful way to say "fuck you." Imma hafta keep that one in mind. --- Hambo's alt. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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xGhostchantx 12/05/22 8:23:12 PM #24: |
DeadBankerDream posted... I hate everything about this post. >:( nglis ofer ealles --- Tiw - Min scild, min sweord, min rihtwisness, min dryhten ... Copied to Clipboard!
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