Comment on Linguistics

CarolineJohnson@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Trashboat@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Overmorrow?

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  • CarolineJohnson@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But that isn’t modern English.

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  • dave@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Tomomorrow?

    Yestesterday?

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    • AceSLive@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I like “Yestesterday”

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• joby@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Be the change you want to see in the word.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    as has already been said, overmorrow is already mostly a thing and is completely cromulent, and i propose taking the swedish “förrgår” and bringing it in as something like “foremorrow” which sounds reasonably cromulent to my ear, might confuse people a little bit but the “fore” bit is a pretty big hint as to what it means.

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• bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Spanish has “antier” for the second one.

  Also a fun one “Estrenar”, which can mean something like “try for the first time”. So you might say “I tried out my bike for the first time the day before yesterday” in English, you could simply say “Estrené mi bicicleta antier” in Spanish

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• merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  OTOH, at least the word for tomorrow isn’t also the word for morning.

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• expr@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Overmorrow” is the word for the day after tomorrow, and “ereyesterday” is the word for the day before yesterday, though both are obviously archaic and not really used (you perhaps might see them in fiction or historical work, though).

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• Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Another good one is differentiating listener inclusive and exclusive "we"s.

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• mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because we mainly just call that “Tuesday”

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• oxideseven@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just make one and see if it sticks. Then there will be

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