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Misinterpreting contextually appropriate diction is not pedantry.
You should start going to meetings
The ackshully faces of the two blue shirts are perfect
So Lemmy
The more inconsequential the topic, the more insistent the deliberate failure to understand.
Actually, there are multiple Lemmy instances and each one has a different foundation and general culture. Some are gay and pedantic, some are racist and pedantic, and some are pendantically excited about the brutal expansion of the Russian empire.
Um, ackshully, “last” in this context is clearly using the definition of “previous”, not “final”.
No wonder that guy’s going to meetings, he needs practice to be a better pedant.
Most of them do, honestly. If you are going to do a thing, you might as well be at least good at it.
One of the greatest things I learned from studying linguistics and language, and knowing a lot of people from a lot of dispersed cultural backgrounds… is to just roll with it because life is short and communicating effectively is fucking difficult. If you can get by with “good enough to convey the message as intended”, you’ve actually managed a supreme feat. Because a message has so many layers, like an ogre, it’s so hard to get them all right every time.
Active listening is a powerful tool, and it kind of shows how little of communication is actually word based
Umm… guys, I regret to inform you, but this is the Pedants Club
There is no ‘the’ Pedants Club as their are multiple Pedants Clubs throughout the internet. Giving any single one a definite article would be misleading.
I like this club.
Last would be the one before the current one, not the current one.
Technically the correct term is “prior.”
so technically, it would be the most recent complete meeting, i.e. not an ongoing meeting, but already completed, but the most recent completed one that isn’t the one thats currently going on, because the one that’s currently happening isn’t complete yet, and the rule states that it must be complete. But once this currently happening meeting IS completed, it will become the most recent meeting.
But how does the next meeting get defined?
Or wouldn’t “previous” be easier?
previous is still up to debate on semantical terms as to how you define the currently on going meeting. If it’s previous to the ongoing meeting that is happening at this very instance, than yeah sure, it’s the previous meeting. But if we’re only talking about meetings that have been completed, and have happened in the past, than previous could refer to the most recent complete meeting, or the one prior to that, depending on context. Which is not very explicitly clear.
Our previous meeting?
personally, i would go with “prior meeting”
Technically all the meetings we’ve had before this one are prior.
