Should we stop using "Bi-weekly"?
Episode description
The three of us are tired of being misunderstood when we've used the words "biweekly", "bimonthly" and "biannually".
It's just no fun.
And so we're starting the campaign to ditch biweekly and use fortnightly instead. See sketch here.
Try it out. You won't regret it.
Our discussion turns to the general ambiguity of language and how in many senses it's quite a good thing.
It allows for creative writing, comedy and ease of communication.
Lots of bits to link to this week from this week's episode - enjoy:
- Ian Hollingshead book - Imagine my surprise...
- William Empson's book - The 7 types of Ambiguity
- TED talk by Lera Boroditsky & here's her Instagram account too.
- Sketch on the Oxford comma
- Sketch on Context is King
- Sketch on Capitonyms
- Sketch on homonyms, homographs, homophones, heteronyms
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