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From: "Peter Neilson" <neilson@windstream.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bi-monthly steps.
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 00:47:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.0heh9dpfrns8nc@odin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y2s5xwwn.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com>

On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 14:15:04 -0400, Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:

> "Bi-monthly" is ambiguous: it can mean twice a month or it can mean
> once every two months and there is no convincing anybody that their
> use of it is wrong :-)

Exactly true. "Bi-weekly" is nearly as ambiguous, but is rescued by an  
ensuing discussion: "Which two days of the week did you want (the event)  
to occur?" "Um, ah, I mean every two weeks." "Fine then, let's say that."

I think the original question from Christian Hopps presumes the meaning,  
"Every two months."

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-03-13  4:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-12 11:17 bi-monthly steps Christian Hopps
2020-03-12 18:15 ` Nick Dokos
2020-03-12 22:55   ` Christian Hopps
2020-03-13  8:01     ` Michal Politowski
2020-03-13 12:14       ` Peter Neilson
2020-03-26 11:33         ` Christian Hopps
2020-03-27  1:12           ` Kyle Meyer
2020-03-27  8:26             ` Christian Hopps
2020-03-13  4:47   ` Peter Neilson [this message]
2020-03-13  6:59     ` Eric S Fraga
2020-03-13  7:14       ` Loris Bennett
2020-03-13  9:51         ` semimonthly steps [Re: bi-monthly steps.] Christian Hopps

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