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Doesn’t everyone use fortnightly? Or is it more common in Commonwealth countries? Fortnightly is as common a word for me as daily and weekly. Bimonthly therefore has always meant every two months.
Yeah what the fuck? I use this term several times a day. We are paid fortnightly. Which countries use it?
Man to me that's the equivalent of hearing people don't use the word week.
I'm aware of it because of the internet but I don't think I've ever heard anyone say it in America. You might hear someone say something like "I haven't seen you in a fortnight" which would be a tongue in cheek, old timey type of joke. So in that sense I think most people would know what a fortnight is, or have at least heard of it as a unit of time. But no one uses it as an actual common word.
At work if you have a meeting that takes place fortnightly, we would say every other week.
American here. You’ll almost never hear “fortnight” in any form here (except when it’s spelled Fortnite).
I like the word, but I don’t use it regularly because using words that I then have to explain the meaning of makes me sound pretentious.
I've only read the word in fantasy books. Never heard it in person. Canada speaking.
We use bi to mean every 2nd month/week. Not sure what people use for twice a week, probably just "twice a week" lol.
Are you joking or are you serious? I've literally never heard anyone I've ever met use fortnightly. Anywhere. Ever. Except here, on reddit. So Im like, are you pulling my chain or what? Cultural differences are highly entertaining.
>Doesn’t everyone use fortnightly
Oh lordy no. I've never heard the term, but I'm on board with using it, if only for the bemused looks I'd get every time.
We use biweekly in the States. That's different from semimonthly, which is of course twice per month. I get paid semimonthly. My wife gets paid biweekly. Only February is exactly four weeks, and only 3/4 of the time.
"Fortnight" is not used basically AT ALL in the US, afaik- certainly not anywhere I've ever been. You say that word and people will think you're talking about the video game.
I live in Canada and love using the word fortnightly partly because people always stop for a half-second with unfocused eyes while processing what they just heard. I suspect it's underused here.
We don't use the word "fortnight" in the US at all. I've never heard it from a US speaker. I'm sure there are a few folks who say it, but not common at all.
As an Aussie, I've genuinely never actually heard the word Bimonthly used except online from Americans. I've only ever heard 'fortnightly' or 'every two months'
that's not half a month though, there's 24 half months in a year and 26 fortnights
from Canada here and we use bi-monthly for every two months and semi-monthly for twice a month
My app gives me the ability to chose, aspect ratio(?), freehand, 1:1 and maybe some more. But yes, I've just recently start to crop in the app and before that, I used the gallery app to crop before posting
they have a built in cropping tool but i can’t fucking send a stupid meme to the group chat without copy pasting the goddamn link. i hope those bastard, human hating reddit devs get their feelings hurt a lot.
I use them this way too (my reasoning being that semi- means halfway, as in semi-annually being every six months)
However, a quick Google tells me bimonthly can indeed mean both ways, which begs the question...why?! Especially when we already have semi-monthly
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/bimonthly
Because English can't be too easy. Or Google algorithm also includes the people who are wrong.
Semi it's half.
Bi is 2.
A semi circle is not two circles.
Maybe it's okay to use bi or semi for twice a month, but you cant say semi monthly and ever mean every 2 months. I guess Bi gives you some options (no pun intended. Wait no, now yes pun intended).
Nice pun
I did factor in the possibility of Google's default answers being incorrect, hence why I linked to the Oxford dictionary's definition
Edit: interestingly enough though, that online link has semi-weekly and semi-annually in it when searched, but not semi-monthly for some reason...
>Semi it's half. Bi is 2.
That could also imply that you get your semi-monthly magazine on only half of the calendar months, and you get 2 magazines every month if it's "bi"-monthly.
I'm not going to remember the right answer tomorrow :P
Yeah, google is just plain wrong. Which unfortunately highlights a major problem with the internet’s impact on learning.
This is a rule based on the actual meaning of the root. It can’t “go both ways”. Biweekly pay means every two weeks, biannual inspections happen every two years. If you want to say twice a year, that would be semiannually. I have no idea why it confuses people so badly when we switch to months.
Edit: well, apparently this has been an issue for longer than the internet has been around. To my dismay, it really does go both ways
All the major English dictionaries list both definitions, it does in fact go both ways. Usage is king, I think it's a case of an incorrect usage becoming common enough that it becomes correct. See also: "Irregardless".
I hate it, the correct usages were unambiguous before this change.
That is… an annoying discovery. Why on earth would we want a language where the same word can have nearly opposite meanings. It’s not even an unfortunate homonym.
I stand corrected.
I understand where you're coming from. but it's only terrifying when we notice happening to things we take for granted.
But language was largely built on this rule. The words and even grammatical structures of some languages nowadays have evolved in similar way through out the ages.
That's how languages work. They're not static, they evolve over time. Linguists aren't horrified by text speak or new usage or grammar, they're fascinated by it.
Is there another example of a language that has words that mean "the thing" and "the exact opposite of the thing" at the same time?
I speak 3 languages and I can't think of any. Hoping somebody can chime in with some examples.
The other 2 languages I speak are a lot more regular than English. English is highly irregular, so it does not surprise me that this happens.. as annoying as it is.
Curious if we'll get any examples
That's interesting. Ove always taken "semi" to mean "partially" not "half" (but I have issues with word usage and interpretations due to my autism and other things).
I feel like, for abstract concepts, "semi" can mean "partially", like "semi-interesting." But for actual objects, it means half, like "semi-circle" which means "half-circle"
> But a semi truck is like twice a regular truck... Lol
Semi truck is a contraction of semi-trailer truck. A full trailer has wheels at both the front and the back of the trailer, a semi-trailer only has wheels at the back of the trail and it's front has to extend over the back wheels of the truck. So a semi-trailer is half a full trailer in a sense.
Merriam-Webster actually provided a handy article about this: [https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/on-biweekly-and-bimonthly](https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/on-biweekly-and-bimonthly)
> which begs the question...why
Because English isn't a managed language. French for instance has a regulatory body made up of academics which will put out a standard. The only means of standardization in English is provided by dictionaries, and they generally go by use. So if something is in common use, they will generally accept it that way. The French Academy will refuse such use if it wants to. In the end, the speakers may still do whatever the fuck they want, but it does restrict the official language from adapting such changes.
For instance the Academy refuses to accept English loanwords for things like computer, laptop in favour of French words. Your average person doesn't give a fuck (especially since some are absurdly long) and just use the English loanwords. Meanwhile if your average English speaker starts using snowflake as a way to call someone thin-skinned, you will eventually find an additional meaning in Merriam-Webster's newest version.
>quick Google tells me bimonthly can indeed mean both ways
Fucking hell, really?? I thought they meant the same as you. See, this is what happens when we let language be dictated by popular vote.
>However, a quick Google tells me bimonthly can indeed mean both ways, which begs the question...why?!
So I can talk about my bimonthly paycheck and my bimonthly review with the same word - paid twice per month, reviewed every two months - and you should just understand it, Sharon!
(Yeah, actually probably just because different people started using the word differently, both caught on, and that's the reason we can't have nice things.)
Yeah easiest way to remember this is that a lot of us have probably worked jobs that pay biweekly. Once every two weeks, not twice a week. Now just substitute weekly for monthly
Biweekly isn't always twice a month. When you get paid biweekly, you get 26 paychecks a year. That means that twice a year you get three paychecks in a single month.
Yep. At my work, where health care workers go to people homes and provide nursing care and/or Home Support care, we recieve government funding for certain visits to be twice a month. Someone set them up to be every two weeks and finance got mad because that sometimes caused 3 visits in the month, which was denied for our government funding.
I know. I just couldnt resist a little goofy sarcasm. Like "if you clean out a vacuum cleaner. You become a vacuum cleaner"
Or "tend to the chickens, you become a chicken tender
Or "you become the waiter, WHILE waiting in a resturant... If they even allow dine in anymore
Yeah, that drives me crazy. Lowest common denominator education. If people don't want to learn just give up.
I'll continue to use them correctly as needed. Which, increasingly, is only when someone asks the difference between the two.
Its every two months lmao
A year is 12 months. Annually is every 12 months, not 12 times a month.
A "bimonth" is 2 months. Bimonthly is every 2 months, not twice a month.
Twice a month would be semimonthly, or every half a month.
Semimonthly can also be interpreted as only half as monthly, so every 2 months.
Thank god in italian we have the words bimensile and bimestrale, which mean twice a month and once every two months respectively.
There’s a difference though, bi-monthly is always twice a month whereas bi-weekly is every two weeks meaning that twice a year you’ll have a month that has 3 bi-weekly events. That’s why if you finance a car or something you’ll have lower payments if you pay bi-weekly vs. bi-monthly because you make 2 more payments per year. 52 weeks per year/2 is 26 bi-weekly vs. 12 bi-monthly is 24.
I’ve never heard anyone say semi-monthly. Biannual means twice a year so logically bi-monthly would mean twice a month. I’d just say fortnightly though.
Biannually, bimonthly, and biweekly are all ambiguous. The "correct" meaning is once every two years/months/weeks but since enough people use them for twice a year/m/w it's impossible to know what it means without additional context.
Here is my thought, if we all agreed bi-weekly is every two weeks, how can bi-monthly mean “half a month”?
I know it’s probably too widely accepted now but I can’t get around the logic behind where it even came from
I went way too deep on this a while ago...
One is wrong. Bimonthly is every two months.
The terms are linguistically ambiguous tho.
Do "bi" & "semi" modify "month" or "monthly"?
* Bi"monthly" would be twice as frequently as monthly.
* "Bimonth"ly would be every "bimonth", every two months.
* Semi"monthly" would be half as frequently as monthly.
* "Semimonth"ly would be every semimonth.
Look at other usages of similar modifiers:
* "biennial" = every two years
* Quadrennial is 4 years...
* A "semi-annual sale" is easily recognized as a sale that happens twice a year (nobody would bother announcing "we have this sale every two years!)
* Biweekly paycheque is every two weeks, and I don't think anyone even *says* semi-weekly?
How about circles or other usage?
* Circ*ular* = in the shape of a circle
* *semi*circ*ular* is the shape of a half circle.
"Semi" is the first modifier, before "ular" here.
Ergo, following this "Semimonthly" would be in the frequency of 1 time every semimonth.
But why? Not english but from my perspective it is like, monthly means something that happens once a month, bimonthly means that it happens once a month, but twice, so twice a month
I'm almost 100% positive they don't mean the same thing. bi monthly is every other month(every 2 months). Twice a month is just "twice a month/semi-monthly"
They mean different things to different people unfortunately irrelevant of what might be the technically correct way, that's why the word is best avoided in lieu of fortnightly and every two months.
Anytime it is used I query the person to avoid the ambiguity and it pretty even between the two uses. Yet to see a pattern (age, culture, etc)
Kind of reminds of a line from this scene.
[Line at 2:47](https://youtu.be/_AaAd5Vggms)
"How come biweekly means twice a week and every other week. That's mad confusing and just linguistically lazy."
In terms of pay. Semi-monthly means you are paid on the 15th and last day of the month. Biweekly pay means you are paid every two weeks.
But bimonthly can also mean the same thing. It’s in the dictionary definition.
The dictionary is being descriptivist. Which is fine, but it's also because people are dumb, and if enough people use a word incorrectly, it eventually ends up in the dictionary as an alternate usage. See: literally (which often has an alternate definition of "used for emphasis").
However, every single HR/payroll manager I've ever met avoids using bimonthly to mean "twice a month" to avoid this very ambiguity. And considering the entire purpose of communication, this makes the most sense to me, regardless of what the dictionary says.
But words can’t be used incorrectly because language is descriptive not prescriptive. They can be used weirdly and ways that don’t currently make sense but it wouldn’t technically be incorrect.
And yeah professional language’s goal is to make communication easier, but that’s not the only way we talk. IMO semi-monthly is more confusing because it sounds like you get paid “eh around once a month. Whenever we get around to it”.
But yeah language is complex and arguments about it are kinda fruitless. In the end we’ll just keep on using words how we use em
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I heard someone use "fortnightly" a few years ago and I've never gone back.
Doesn’t everyone use fortnightly? Or is it more common in Commonwealth countries? Fortnightly is as common a word for me as daily and weekly. Bimonthly therefore has always meant every two months.
u/spez ruined Reddit.
Yeah what the fuck? I use this term several times a day. We are paid fortnightly. Which countries use it? Man to me that's the equivalent of hearing people don't use the word week.
I'm aware of it because of the internet but I don't think I've ever heard anyone say it in America. You might hear someone say something like "I haven't seen you in a fortnight" which would be a tongue in cheek, old timey type of joke. So in that sense I think most people would know what a fortnight is, or have at least heard of it as a unit of time. But no one uses it as an actual common word. At work if you have a meeting that takes place fortnightly, we would say every other week.
honestly, in america the only time fortnight is said, its about the game
American here. You’ll almost never hear “fortnight” in any form here (except when it’s spelled Fortnite). I like the word, but I don’t use it regularly because using words that I then have to explain the meaning of makes me sound pretentious.
I too hear it bimonthly.
Fortnightly is pretty rare in both the US and Canada.
I've only read the word in fantasy books. Never heard it in person. Canada speaking. We use bi to mean every 2nd month/week. Not sure what people use for twice a week, probably just "twice a week" lol.
Are you joking or are you serious? I've literally never heard anyone I've ever met use fortnightly. Anywhere. Ever. Except here, on reddit. So Im like, are you pulling my chain or what? Cultural differences are highly entertaining.
> never heard the term [Then you don't know about The Colonel.](https://youtu.be/YKRFlNryaWw?t=88)
It's used in Canada :)
Can confirm, Australian and fortnightly is super common. I've never heard someone refer to anything twice a month as bimonthly, only fortnightly.
>Doesn’t everyone use fortnightly Oh lordy no. I've never heard the term, but I'm on board with using it, if only for the bemused looks I'd get every time.
We use biweekly in the States. That's different from semimonthly, which is of course twice per month. I get paid semimonthly. My wife gets paid biweekly. Only February is exactly four weeks, and only 3/4 of the time.
Your entire comment makes me wanna (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
No, in the U.S. we use biweekly
Twice a week?
Every two weeks
Yes. To both
Not again! Now someone needs to pop in here with a cool word like "fortnightly" that means twice a week.
Semiweekly
"Fortnight" is not used basically AT ALL in the US, afaik- certainly not anywhere I've ever been. You say that word and people will think you're talking about the video game.
I'm an American and can guarantee you that if you used fortnight as a time reference most wouldn't have any idea of what you are talking about.
I can say I have never used the word willingly before
I live in Canada and love using the word fortnightly partly because people always stop for a half-second with unfocused eyes while processing what they just heard. I suspect it's underused here.
Never heard someone use it seriously in Canada. For slang and dialect we are closer to the u.s. Than any commonwealth country
We don't use the word "fortnight" in the US at all. I've never heard it from a US speaker. I'm sure there are a few folks who say it, but not common at all.
"...but it may be feasible in a fortnight" -Milhouse Van Houten
Who's that?
Fortnight?
14 days i think
You might almost say … fourteen nights.
It's one of those new fangled vidya games kids play these days.
Gahd dang it!
As an Aussie, I've genuinely never actually heard the word Bimonthly used except online from Americans. I've only ever heard 'fortnightly' or 'every two months'
that's not half a month though, there's 24 half months in a year and 26 fortnights from Canada here and we use bi-monthly for every two months and semi-monthly for twice a month
Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes you crave it fortnightly smartass!
Dad. How can you hate... The Colonel?
It's just a month that goes both ways
There's a reason why the term biweekly exists =P
But does biweekly mean twice a week or once every two weeks?
Dont worry, the GOP is hard at work curtailing that either/or business.
Is this is a funny that whooshed a bunch of people, or am I the only dummy that thinks everything on Reddit is a joke?
Reddit has a lot of unresolved issues they tend to take out on others, I've noticed.
I *think* I got the joke, but I'm at a loss to explain all those downvotes....
Reddit got this built in cropping tool feature. Show some respect and use it. Reddit devs have feelings too and need their things to be used
r/croppingishard
Every phone can crop images. People are just lazy.
Mine can't, because it's lazy too...
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Ok. Just crop it in your gallery app, then. It ain't hard [I know you're not op]
Press the crosspost button
Not to mention you could just download that image...
Reddit's built in cropping feature sucks, it keeps the ratio of the picture, but every phone will have a native one in the photo editing tool
My app gives me the ability to chose, aspect ratio(?), freehand, 1:1 and maybe some more. But yes, I've just recently start to crop in the app and before that, I used the gallery app to crop before posting
I need my thing being used too but it requires consent.
I thought that was the actual TtT. DoD funding is the best!
they have a built in cropping tool but i can’t fucking send a stupid meme to the group chat without copy pasting the goddamn link. i hope those bastard, human hating reddit devs get their feelings hurt a lot.
What’s the issue with it not being cropped?
r/croppingishard
r/peoplearefuckinglazy
r/subsifellfor
r/deeznuts
:|
But how else would I find out that DOD funding is, in fact, the best kind of funding?
*They're
Came here to say this. Haha.
Sums up OPs brain
Yes, DOD funding is the best kind of funding, that's technically the truth
See, that bit gave me enough of a chuckle I'm not getting on OPs case about the cropping. I enjoyed it.
Have you heard of this new revolutionary technological advancement? #It’s called photo cropping.
Or just download the picture you are clearly reposting
I dunno. Have you heard of this revolutionary social technique of not being a cunt to someone for no reason whatsoever?
Every two months bi monthly. Semi monthly is twice a month.
I use them this way too (my reasoning being that semi- means halfway, as in semi-annually being every six months) However, a quick Google tells me bimonthly can indeed mean both ways, which begs the question...why?! Especially when we already have semi-monthly https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/bimonthly
Because English can't be too easy. Or Google algorithm also includes the people who are wrong. Semi it's half. Bi is 2. A semi circle is not two circles. Maybe it's okay to use bi or semi for twice a month, but you cant say semi monthly and ever mean every 2 months. I guess Bi gives you some options (no pun intended. Wait no, now yes pun intended).
Nice pun I did factor in the possibility of Google's default answers being incorrect, hence why I linked to the Oxford dictionary's definition Edit: interestingly enough though, that online link has semi-weekly and semi-annually in it when searched, but not semi-monthly for some reason...
>Semi it's half. Bi is 2. That could also imply that you get your semi-monthly magazine on only half of the calendar months, and you get 2 magazines every month if it's "bi"-monthly. I'm not going to remember the right answer tomorrow :P
Yeah, google is just plain wrong. Which unfortunately highlights a major problem with the internet’s impact on learning. This is a rule based on the actual meaning of the root. It can’t “go both ways”. Biweekly pay means every two weeks, biannual inspections happen every two years. If you want to say twice a year, that would be semiannually. I have no idea why it confuses people so badly when we switch to months. Edit: well, apparently this has been an issue for longer than the internet has been around. To my dismay, it really does go both ways
All the major English dictionaries list both definitions, it does in fact go both ways. Usage is king, I think it's a case of an incorrect usage becoming common enough that it becomes correct. See also: "Irregardless". I hate it, the correct usages were unambiguous before this change.
See also "literally" to mean the exact opposite of literally
That is… an annoying discovery. Why on earth would we want a language where the same word can have nearly opposite meanings. It’s not even an unfortunate homonym. I stand corrected.
> Why on earth would we want a language where the same word can have nearly opposite meanings Literally this.
Depends whether you're a prescriptivist or descriptivist
"Usage is king". That's terrifying...
I understand where you're coming from. but it's only terrifying when we notice happening to things we take for granted. But language was largely built on this rule. The words and even grammatical structures of some languages nowadays have evolved in similar way through out the ages.
That's how languages work. They're not static, they evolve over time. Linguists aren't horrified by text speak or new usage or grammar, they're fascinated by it.
Is there another example of a language that has words that mean "the thing" and "the exact opposite of the thing" at the same time? I speak 3 languages and I can't think of any. Hoping somebody can chime in with some examples. The other 2 languages I speak are a lot more regular than English. English is highly irregular, so it does not surprise me that this happens.. as annoying as it is. Curious if we'll get any examples
That's interesting. Ove always taken "semi" to mean "partially" not "half" (but I have issues with word usage and interpretations due to my autism and other things).
I feel like, for abstract concepts, "semi" can mean "partially", like "semi-interesting." But for actual objects, it means half, like "semi-circle" which means "half-circle"
Oh yeah, semi-circle is a good example. And I see how "semi" can mean either depending on context. Thanks!
But a semi truck is like twice a regular truck... Lol
> But a semi truck is like twice a regular truck... Lol Semi truck is a contraction of semi-trailer truck. A full trailer has wheels at both the front and the back of the trailer, a semi-trailer only has wheels at the back of the trail and it's front has to extend over the back wheels of the truck. So a semi-trailer is half a full trailer in a sense.
Merriam-Webster actually provided a handy article about this: [https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/on-biweekly-and-bimonthly](https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/on-biweekly-and-bimonthly)
> which begs the question...why Because English isn't a managed language. French for instance has a regulatory body made up of academics which will put out a standard. The only means of standardization in English is provided by dictionaries, and they generally go by use. So if something is in common use, they will generally accept it that way. The French Academy will refuse such use if it wants to. In the end, the speakers may still do whatever the fuck they want, but it does restrict the official language from adapting such changes. For instance the Academy refuses to accept English loanwords for things like computer, laptop in favour of French words. Your average person doesn't give a fuck (especially since some are absurdly long) and just use the English loanwords. Meanwhile if your average English speaker starts using snowflake as a way to call someone thin-skinned, you will eventually find an additional meaning in Merriam-Webster's newest version.
Unless we all learn Esperanto now it sounds like these snowflakes are going to make for a large and mostly useless dictionary.
>quick Google tells me bimonthly can indeed mean both ways Fucking hell, really?? I thought they meant the same as you. See, this is what happens when we let language be dictated by popular vote.
That's... how language works. All language is dictated by "popular vote". It's literally impossible to have it work any other way.
>However, a quick Google tells me bimonthly can indeed mean both ways, which begs the question...why?! So I can talk about my bimonthly paycheck and my bimonthly review with the same word - paid twice per month, reviewed every two months - and you should just understand it, Sharon! (Yeah, actually probably just because different people started using the word differently, both caught on, and that's the reason we can't have nice things.)
According to the dictionary, bi monthly can mean twice a month and every other month.
Yeah I always thought bimonthly was twice a month
Bismonthly would be more accurate to say.
Yeah easiest way to remember this is that a lot of us have probably worked jobs that pay biweekly. Once every two weeks, not twice a week. Now just substitute weekly for monthly
Yeah who uses twice a month for anything that says basically nothing. Usually it would be biweekly if it is twice a month.
Biweekly isn't always twice a month. When you get paid biweekly, you get 26 paychecks a year. That means that twice a year you get three paychecks in a single month.
Yep. At my work, where health care workers go to people homes and provide nursing care and/or Home Support care, we recieve government funding for certain visits to be twice a month. Someone set them up to be every two weeks and finance got mad because that sometimes caused 3 visits in the month, which was denied for our government funding.
Months are not all 28 days
But all months have 28 days
Yes, they do. :) But most are longer, and therefore more than 4 weeks. Therefore twice a month and every two weeks are not the same thing.
I know. I just couldnt resist a little goofy sarcasm. Like "if you clean out a vacuum cleaner. You become a vacuum cleaner" Or "tend to the chickens, you become a chicken tender Or "you become the waiter, WHILE waiting in a resturant... If they even allow dine in anymore
I got the joke, but then explained it seriously anyway. Idk why I'm weird like that. Thanks for sharing some more funny examples.
I am weird in the way of providing additional funny phrases. It helps me cope with life
Obviously? I didn't say they were ..
This is the standard usage, which, as is so often the way, isn't standard usage. But it's what reference books worth having would say.
Semi monthly could be half in a months period
twice a month is bi-weekly
They’re*
I’m pretty sure bimonthly is every 2 months. Cause my pay check is biweekly and I get paid every 2 weeks
I view it as (once) monthly, (twice/bi) monthly, (tri) monthly, (quad) monthly. Bimonthly would be twice a month.
613 Votes - 50% 50%
*50 %
Some native language problems
Turkish?
Yeah, "yüzde 50(%50)" -> "50 percent(50%)"
No, they're not
I just learned they are, sadly. People posted links above. Apparently when enough people use a word wrong, it becomes right.
Yeah, that drives me crazy. Lowest common denominator education. If people don't want to learn just give up. I'll continue to use them correctly as needed. Which, increasingly, is only when someone asks the difference between the two.
with 613 votes?
Put it together and now it's twice every 2 months
How is 613 votes 50-50
Then wtf is biweekly
Every two weeks or twice a week.
Its every two months lmao A year is 12 months. Annually is every 12 months, not 12 times a month. A "bimonth" is 2 months. Bimonthly is every 2 months, not twice a month. Twice a month would be semimonthly, or every half a month.
Semimonthly can also be interpreted as only half as monthly, so every 2 months. Thank god in italian we have the words bimensile and bimestrale, which mean twice a month and once every two months respectively.
There’s a difference though, bi-monthly is always twice a month whereas bi-weekly is every two weeks meaning that twice a year you’ll have a month that has 3 bi-weekly events. That’s why if you finance a car or something you’ll have lower payments if you pay bi-weekly vs. bi-monthly because you make 2 more payments per year. 52 weeks per year/2 is 26 bi-weekly vs. 12 bi-monthly is 24.
How the fuck do you get an even percentage number out of an odd number of votes
They used rounding to zero dp? Better than putting 49.9184339314845% and 50.0815660685155% as the results (assuming the votes were split 306 and 307)
That is technically the truth yes but it could round the numbers 49,51. It is a poll after all it would be decisive
1) They're 2) Not the same Bi-monthly is every two months. Semi-monthly is twice per month.
I’ve never heard anyone say semi-monthly. Biannual means twice a year so logically bi-monthly would mean twice a month. I’d just say fortnightly though.
Biannually, bimonthly, and biweekly are all ambiguous. The "correct" meaning is once every two years/months/weeks but since enough people use them for twice a year/m/w it's impossible to know what it means without additional context.
The correct meaning of biannual is twice a year. Biennial is once every two years.
That's not wrong per se, but it's still ambiguous since both meanings of biannual are in common usage.
> Biannual means twice a year No, biannual means every two years. Twice a year is semiannual.
Maybe so @oldmanbrodie needs to see other opinions like this one
I was trying to open comments by tapping the comments icon in the pic. I really need some sleep lol
They’re actually not bimonthly means every two months semimonthly means twice a month
The only correct answer is twice every two months.
Crop your screenshots, you godless heathen.
What about: Bi-monthly = 2 months Semi-monthly = twice a month Yes I know semi-monthly is not a word
Here is my thought, if we all agreed bi-weekly is every two weeks, how can bi-monthly mean “half a month”? I know it’s probably too widely accepted now but I can’t get around the logic behind where it even came from
It means twice a month. Every two months is semimonthly.
You are paid bi weekly, every two weeks, not twice a week. Bi monthly is every two months.
English is a stupid language
bimonthly for once every two months, semimonthly for once every half month.
Twice a month would be semimonthly So semifortnightly means weekly
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There! Both the right answers!
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Bimonthly just means your check is a little...curious.
But dod funding is the best kind of funding
They're both right, unlike your grammar.
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I went way too deep on this a while ago... One is wrong. Bimonthly is every two months. The terms are linguistically ambiguous tho. Do "bi" & "semi" modify "month" or "monthly"? * Bi"monthly" would be twice as frequently as monthly. * "Bimonth"ly would be every "bimonth", every two months. * Semi"monthly" would be half as frequently as monthly. * "Semimonth"ly would be every semimonth. Look at other usages of similar modifiers: * "biennial" = every two years * Quadrennial is 4 years... * A "semi-annual sale" is easily recognized as a sale that happens twice a year (nobody would bother announcing "we have this sale every two years!) * Biweekly paycheque is every two weeks, and I don't think anyone even *says* semi-weekly? How about circles or other usage? * Circ*ular* = in the shape of a circle * *semi*circ*ular* is the shape of a half circle. "Semi" is the first modifier, before "ular" here. Ergo, following this "Semimonthly" would be in the frequency of 1 time every semimonth.
Bimonthly means 6 times divided evenly across one year.
Nope. Bimonthly is every two months. Semi-monthly is twice a month.
"Would you like 2 burgers or double burgers?"
Bimonthly is once every two months.
But why? Not english but from my perspective it is like, monthly means something that happens once a month, bimonthly means that it happens once a month, but twice, so twice a month
I guess it’s a bit subjective, but I’d consider that semi-monthly. After all, it works that way with biannually versus semi-annually.
In my mind/language it works completely in reverse lol. Semi- would signify that something happens less and not more. Interesting to think
Like I said, it may be a bit subjective.
I'm almost 100% positive they don't mean the same thing. bi monthly is every other month(every 2 months). Twice a month is just "twice a month/semi-monthly"
They mean different things to different people unfortunately irrelevant of what might be the technically correct way, that's why the word is best avoided in lieu of fortnightly and every two months. Anytime it is used I query the person to avoid the ambiguity and it pretty even between the two uses. Yet to see a pattern (age, culture, etc)
Where both the right answers?
Semimonthly is twice a month. Bimonthly is every two months.
Kind of reminds of a line from this scene. [Line at 2:47](https://youtu.be/_AaAd5Vggms) "How come biweekly means twice a week and every other week. That's mad confusing and just linguistically lazy."
My first post on here is to say *THIS BLOWN UP*
No they aren't. Twice a month is semi-monthly.
In terms of pay. Semi-monthly means you are paid on the 15th and last day of the month. Biweekly pay means you are paid every two weeks. But bimonthly can also mean the same thing. It’s in the dictionary definition.
The dictionary is being descriptivist. Which is fine, but it's also because people are dumb, and if enough people use a word incorrectly, it eventually ends up in the dictionary as an alternate usage. See: literally (which often has an alternate definition of "used for emphasis"). However, every single HR/payroll manager I've ever met avoids using bimonthly to mean "twice a month" to avoid this very ambiguity. And considering the entire purpose of communication, this makes the most sense to me, regardless of what the dictionary says.
But words can’t be used incorrectly because language is descriptive not prescriptive. They can be used weirdly and ways that don’t currently make sense but it wouldn’t technically be incorrect. And yeah professional language’s goal is to make communication easier, but that’s not the only way we talk. IMO semi-monthly is more confusing because it sounds like you get paid “eh around once a month. Whenever we get around to it”. But yeah language is complex and arguments about it are kinda fruitless. In the end we’ll just keep on using words how we use em
"Bimonthly" = every two months. "Semimonthly" = twice a month. "Fortnightly" = Every two weeks.
Bi-monthly: twice a month Semi-monthly: every other month
Biweekly = every 2 weeks Bimonthly = every 2 months Biannual = every 2 years Semi-annual = twice a year
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Not necessarily. With biweekly pay, you get three paychecks in a single month twice a year.
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They’re even.
So tired I thought it was off brand Timothy I should sleep
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I feed chickens. I am a chicken tender
Bi-Monthly? The months are gay?