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I thought that seemed awkward. What do you think they intend to mean?
by guns 16y ago
I thought that seemed awkward. What do you think they intend to mean?
- Throlkim 16y agoUltimate? :)
- paulgb 16y agoMy guess is "ultimate". Admittedly, "penultimate" is a cooler-sounding word.
- WorkerBee 16y agoAll words are cool if you don't know what they mean. If the reader knows what it means but the writer doesn't, the effects are less predictable and desirable.
- powrtoch 16y agoPenultimate has this in common with "literally". It's most often misused to mean the opposite of what's intended. Cue Inigo Montoya.
- studer 16y agoI'm not entirely sure if "next-to-last" and "last" can be described as opposites, though :-)
- powrtoch 16y agoWell, there is this: Opposites are a tricky concept, not well-defined in most domains. Your implication is that the opposite of last is "first". But doesn't it make at least as much sense to say the opposite of last is "not last"? From a programing/math standpoint, it seems like a strictly better, less arbitrary definition.