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irelephant 🍭 @lemm.ee

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196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

irelephant 🍭 @lemm.ee

3d ago

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- I think in practice almost no one uses the second definition. If your office has a “biweekly meeting” then it’s definitely a meeting every 2 weeks, occurring on the same day (usually a Monday).
  Two meetings in one week is just two different meetings, not a biweekly meeting.
  
  This is a regional thing, I'm pretty sure. I live in a city that is particularly prone to housing people who didn't grow up here (really shitty average rent to income ratio) and this is a huge issue in communication constantly

Ø - the 27th letter of the danish alfabet
Ø - the danish word for island
- Interesting name for the southern Swedish dialect you have there
- "ö i å" is a perfectly valid statement in swedish, meaning "island in river"
  
  We have something similar although only in certain dialects of danish. The following is a valid sentence meaning the island in the river: æ ø i æ å
- A, b, c, d, e, island, f...
  
  No, it goes x y z æ ø å
  And å is river

There are so many things that we assume are unambiguous that aren't. Like, my favourite argument starter is asking if 12 AM is midnight or midday.
- 24 hour clock all day every day
- If someone asked me that, I would say that i don't care, because I use the 24 hour clock.
  
  Fair. I actually get actively mad when stuff puts me on a 12-hour clock.
- 12am is midnight. Maybe not everyone knows it but it is defined.
- There is actually a correct answer here, which is that 12:00 AM is midnight. It's really stupid because we should just call it 0 AM, but I think it's because they didn't really have the concept of zero as a number back when this stuff was decided, and we've carried this stupid legacy system with us since then
- I actually have no idea. Which is it?
  
  It's midnight, because noon is 12PM.
  
  It's disputed, that's why it's a good argument question. Most style guides say it's midnight or recommend staying away from it. Just use a 24-hour clock.

ø - Umlaut version of o.
- Ööö (uhhh), not really.

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