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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I thought you couldn't be snob and captain obvious at the same time, but here we are.

On the other hand, with your degree in linguistics are you granted a special permission to use random capitals?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah, yeah, but where's the fun in that? Trolling the shit out of people is way too much fun to not be pedantic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

In a perfect world there would be one language that was absolutely precise and only added new worlds as necessary. We don't live there though, so we're stuck with our current insanity.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (12 children)

But there is no single word in modern English for "the day after tomorrow" or "the day before yesterday".

In other languages, maybe. But not in English.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Definitely both exist in Japanese and they are used fairly frequently.

一昨日 day before yesterday 昨日 yesterday 今日 today 明日 tomorrow 明後日 day after tomorrow

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

There are also technically words for 3 and 4 days from now (also 3 and 4 days ago), but I don't think they get used much.