[olug] Omaha Linux User's Group Install Fest Press Release

Jay Hannah jay at jays.net
Thu Dec 11 01:28:45 UTC 2003


On Monday, December 8, 2003, at 11:09 PM, Eric Penne wrote:
> A couple other dictionaries say that biannual means twice per year.
> Technically the article is correct.
>
>> Look it up.
>>
>> bi·an·nu·al     P   Pronunciation Key  (b-ny-l)
>>  adj.
>> Happening twice each year; semiannual.
>>
>> Occurring every two years; biennial.
>>
>>
>> biannual really shouldn't be used since it's meaning is ambiguous.
>> biennial is every 2 years.
>> semiannual is twice per year.
>>
>> biannual could be either one.

... and yet bimonthly always means every two months? What a stupid 
language English is. I'm switching in Esperanto.

http://esperantonebraska.org/?l=en

j
... Esperanto and Perl. -grin-





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