On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 17:05 -0400, MÃirÃn Duffy wrote: > On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 16:11 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > > It's an Americanism. In the US, one can say odd things like "bi-annual", > > "next week", "shelved", etc. etc. etc. that are ambiguous and weirdly > > construed by others :) I would say "semi-annual" is better globally. > > Okay in that case I'd rather say, "twice annually" because saying > "semi-annual" in the US I think is kind of confusing. E.g., the > Victoria's Secret semi-annual sale (sorry it's the only one I could > think of) happens more than 2 times during a year. I suppose there's no good way to shorten it, so yea "twice annually" is the least ambiguous. And it's not a "mistake", because that's how it's said in this country. I rarely find I go a day without running up against something like this, and in fact was talking to another Brit who teaches at BU the other day about all manner of confusing things one hears that sound like English, but not the kind we grew up with ;) Jon. _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
