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3 panel meme. First panel: “I made a new internet slang”. Second panel: “New or misused AAVE?” Third panel: “Misused AAVE”. :::
the other 20% is either 4chan incel language or something trump tweeted in 2017
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3 panel meme. First panel: “I made a new internet slang”. Second panel: “New or misused AAVE?” Third panel: “Misused AAVE”. :::
the other 20% is either 4chan incel language or something trump tweeted in 2017
This can even happen to technical terms, for example bimonthly now has both the original meaning of once every 2 months, and also means semimonthly, twice a month.
In other words it’s completely worthless as a word because it fails to specify between conflicting meanings.
“Biweekly” and “biannually” have the same problem. I guess the terms have stuck because the dates they’re referring to are usually specified as well. It’s not much help to only know that something will happen at some point within a week, month, or year. “Okay, but when, exactly?”