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[weaktwos]

This problem has been around for a long time, but it's time I got this off my chest.

I would like to formally object to the definitions of the words biweekly, bimonthly and biannually. Look at those definitions. What bullshit. Thanks to these words, an event that is biweekly, bimonthly or biannually could be happening twice as often or half as often as you think. How could we let this happen to our vocabulary?!? Gay marriage and family values pale in comparison to this blight on our lexicon! I am boycotting the use of these words. Curses to the pundits that cluttered our vocabulary with useless words as these!

bi•month•ly P Pronunciation Key (b -m nth l )
adj.
1. Happening every two months.
2. Happening twice a month; semimonthly.
bi•week•ly P Pronunciation Key (b -w k l )
adj.
1. Happening every two weeks.
2. Happening twice a week; semiweekly.

bi•an•nu•al P Pronunciation Key (b - n y - l)
adj.
1. Happening twice each year; semiannual.
2. Occurring every two years; biennial.

Comments

[gladstone.livejournal.com]

Four times as often or one fourth as often, actually. For instance, a bimonthly event happens either twenty-four times a year or six times a year, and the one is four times as frequent as the other.

[weaktwos.livejournal.com]

I stand corrected, but no less annoyed. ;-)

[scrapdog.livejournal.com]

Yes, and inflammable = flammable.

I'm sure more than a few people have died because they didn't know that.

[moxiesocks.livejournal.com]

those confuse me.. I never know what someone means when they say "bi-monthly". I think it means twice a month.... but it could mean every two months.
Why have such words??!!

I agree.

[dslartoo.livejournal.com]

As a comics fan this has fucked me up several times when *I* thought something entirely different was meant with respect to the schedule a book would be released on. It annoys the crap out of me.

cheers,
Phil

[weaktwos.livejournal.com]

Eeek! No good can come of that...

[scottage.livejournal.com]

If I was Bi monthly, I'd have a lot of explaining to do to my girlfriend.

[weaktwos.livejournal.com]

You might have a lot of explaining to do to anyone.

She might be into that sort of thing...