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>There is no word for the day before yesterday in the English language
And no, ereyesterday doesn't count because it has become obsolete

>> No.21468334

>>21468332
>obsolete
According to who?

>> No.21468339
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>>21468334
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ereyesterday

>> No.21468346

>>21468339
>wiktionary
If one person still uses it, then it is not obsolete.

>> No.21468369

>>21468346
No, you need two people for it to not be obsolete. Language doesnt exist before two people comprehend it

>> No.21468393

>>21468369
Lmao

>> No.21468616

>>21468369
>Language doesnt exist before two people comprehend it

If that were true it would negate the possibility of language existing at all.

>> No.21468695

>>21468332
...OK?
Is it that hard to say "day before last"?
or
"two days ago"

>> No.21468700

There is no word in the English language for 'pizza party'.

>> No.21468707

>>21468369
What if I have a split personality and talk to myself?

>> No.21469163

>>21468332
>And no, ereyesterday doesn't count because it has become obsolete
what a dumb statement and of course it's from a frogposter, kys
even if it didn't exist who cares, many big languages don't have it either.

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>>21468332
yesteryesterday

>> No.21469272

>>21468332
pretty sure Joyce made up a word for that

>> No.21469291

>>21468332
>überüberübermorgen
>überübermorgen
>übermorgen
>morgen
>heute
>gestern
>vorgestern
>vorvorgestern
>vorvorvorgestern
Germans solved it for German

>> No.21469297

>>21468700
>pizzaparty
Now there is.

>> No.21469306

>>21469297
You can not just put 2 word together and call it a new word that's not how it works

>> No.21469308

>>21469306
How is going to stop me?

>> No.21469337

>>21469306
>Cannot

>> No.21469342

>>21469306
Myself, quite matter-of-factly, I neologise neologisms neologically all day everyday.

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>>21469306

>> No.21469430
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21469430

english is not a language. but a concept

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>>21468332
>there's no word for fucking your sister while on crack and eating pringles
Englishbros....

>> No.21470358

>>21468332
>he thinks this is a genuine problem
English has some particularly stupid rules (and some we don’t even bother abiding by) but this is what you’re going to frogpost about?

>> No.21470419

>>21468332
I've remedied this heinous pox upon the English tongue by conceiving of a new word: "twesterday." For the feebleminded (almost everybody except for me), this is a compound of two pertinent words, those being "two," and, of course, "yesterday." Thus, there now exists in the English language a word whose purpose is to signify the concept currently so cumbersomely expressed only by the exceedingly verbose phrase, "two days ago." (Ugh!)
At the moment, "twesterday" - my greatest achievement, I should think - has yet to be introduced into common parlance, but I'm confident that this will change upon the release of my fifteen-hundred page post-modern science-fiction-fantasy novel, which makes extensive use of the term, and which I'm sure will be widely circulated.
I appreciate your concern, but you needn't worry; the adults have stepped in to deal with it.
>inb4 feebleminded rage at this post

>> No.21470967

>>21468695
how hard is it to say "the day before today"

>> No.21470993

>>21469306
That's how shakespeare coined "bedroom"

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21471025

>THERE IS NO WORD...

>«EREYESTERDAY».

>... IT DOES NOT COUNT.

>> No.21471063

There is no word for 3:23pm March 23 1982 in the English language either. It is meme language.

>> No.21471070

>there's no word for "a HUGE day for college football" in English

>> No.21471132

>>21469291
>jea ich werde vorvorvorvorvorvorvorvorgestern die enneads gelesen :DDDD
>es ist vorvorvorvorvorvorvorvorgestern? ich dachte ess wagr überüberüberüberüberüberüberüberübermorgen x-DDDDDDD

>> No.21471151

>>21468332
Lol look at the anglos pretending that this is too specific a thing to dedicate a word to. While any decent language has a word for day before yesterday