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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Think of biweekly and biweekly as homonyms, they can mean either and you figure out the meaning through context.

    Very few things happen twice a week, biweekly usually means every second week, but it’s never used because fortnightly is preferred.

    Others here are saying bimonthly means twice a month but I’ve never heard it used that way. Again, very few things happen twice a month, it’s always fortnightly which is not the same. Lots of things happen every second month, “the board meets bimonthly”, that means 6 times a year.

    Biannual always means twice a year because what things do you do every second year?

    In all cases you can use the alternative meaning like “I visit my cousin biannually” and it’s not incorrect but of course “I visit my cousin every second year” avoids confusion.





  • Fair point.

    There’s nothing wrong with Lemmy growing in an organic sustainable way, but I dislike the attitude that lemmy ought to be a reddit replacement or that lemmy should grow from the ashes of reddit.

    Lemmy should be it’s own thing with it’s own culture and history and communities.

    I get a bit peeved when lemmy users (not necessarily you) get a bit obsessive about transferring communities to lemmy from reddit. Just focus on creating good content for Lemmy and forget about the rest.