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16937953 No.16937953 [Reply] [Original]

Does bi-weekly mean two times in a week or once every two weeks?

>> No.16937961

the former

>> No.16937963

>>16937961

>> No.16937964

>>16937953
Think of it as every other week.

>> No.16937986

>>16937953


«WEEKLY» MEANS: «EVERY WEEK»; «BIWEEKLY» MEANS: «EVERY TWO WEEKS».

>> No.16937992

Every other week

>> No.16937995

Weekly means once every week. Biweekly means twice every week. It’s simple really.

>> No.16938016

>>16937995


«BIWEEKLY» MEANS: «EVERY TWO WEEKS»; «SEMIWEEKLY» MEANS: «TWICE IN A WEEK».

>> No.16938286

>>16938016
You have it backwards

>> No.16938317

>>16938286


WHAT IS IT THAT I HAVE BACKWARDS?

>> No.16938330

>>16937953
yes

>> No.16938442

No.

>> No.16938448

>>16937953
Either

>> No.16938680

Both

>> No.16938706

can you repeat the question

>> No.16938741

I would say every 2 weeks. Otherwise you would say twice weekly.

>> No.16938970

>>16937961
which one is that?

>> No.16938982

>>16938317
biweekly is twice a week. weekly is once a week.

>> No.16938984

kill_everyone_in_this_thread.png

>> No.16938985

Both are equally as true - this is why English is an awful language.

>> No.16938994

Merriam Webster says its both

>> No.16939023

>>16937953
Now whats is really going to blow your mind is that bi-weekly can also mean the same and is usually the preferred way of saying bi-monthly although bimonthly is usually worse in terms of pay since you get paid 24 times vs 26 times adjusted for days it comes or should come out the same but yeah fuck english.

>> No.16939044

>>16938985
This is why they will never have the Quixote.

>> No.16939078

>>16938982


NO —«WEEKLY» IS AN ADVERB; ADVERBS ACCUSATIVELY MODIFY VERBS; FOR SOMETHING TO OCCUR, OR TO BE DONE, WEEKLY, MEANS THAT IT OCCURS, OR IS DONE, WITH A TEMPORAL FREQUENCY OF ONE WEEK; IT DOES NOT MEAN: «OCCURRING, OR MADE, WITHIN THE SPAN OF A WEEK», BECAUSE THIS IS AN ABLATIVE CONDITION, NOT AN ACCUSATIVE ONE.

FROM THIS LOGICALLY DERIVES THAT: «BIWEEKLY», MEANS: «EVERY TWO WEEKS».

>> No.16939381

>>16937953
biweekly == fortnightly

>> No.16939656

>>16937953
Yes