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I can see people learning English as a second language struggling, but I don’t think anybody raised with English would take semimonthly to mean every two months
by charming_paint 5y ago
I can see people learning English as a second language struggling, but I don’t think anybody raised with English would take semimonthly to mean every two months. Maybe this is because of how we learn about the prefix, with semicircles (half circles).
- D13Fd 5y agoI'm a native English speaker and I speak no other language. But my view is just one data point. The problem is whether "half as much as annually" is interpreted as twice as frequently (your view, and the accepted one) or half as frequently (my natural inclination).