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xkcd #3232: Countdown Standard

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Anyone who is caught counting 'three ... two ... one ... zero ... GO!' will be punished with a lifetime of eating only ISO standard food samples.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3232/

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[-] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 48 points 1 month ago

This is one of those ones that's a tragedy. Biweekly "should" always mean every two weeks. Twice a week is "semi-weekly", aka every half a week.

But regardless of what it "should" mean, people use it wrong often enough that you have to check every time, not because the word is ambiguous, but because people are often mistaken.

It's a shame, but it's part of human communication 😅

[-] zerofk@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 month ago

Human communication sucks. It should be illegal.

[-] Klear@quokk.au 5 points 1 month ago
[-] _NetNomad@fedia.io 9 points 1 month ago

sorry that's illegal

this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2026
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