@[email protected] to Ask [email protected] • 5 months agoYou can add one word to the vocabulary / general use, what would it be?message-square38fedilinkarrow-up18
arrow-up18message-squareYou can add one word to the vocabulary / general use, what would it be?@[email protected] to Ask [email protected] • 5 months agomessage-square38fedilink
Any explanation / meaning / backstory is more than welcome, or you can just drop it for everyone to try and resolve.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•5 months agoOvermorrow. I hate saying the day after tomorrow like some peasant.
minus-squareNoneOfUrBusinesslinkfedilink0•5 months agoY’all should bring it back to common use and rejoin the civilized world by overmorrow evening.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•5 months agoI feel we should simplify that even further by saying undermorrow.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•5 months ago…to mean “today”? (as in, the day before tomorrow)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-25 months agoNo, the underneath of the day after tomorrow (night), as opposed to the above (morning, or day).
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•5 months agoIt is an official word, but nobody uses it anymore in English. Same goes for ereyesterday (the day before yesterday)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•edit-25 months agoWe already have that in German! Morgen and Übermorgen (Über- = over-)
Overmorrow.
I hate saying the day after tomorrow like some peasant.
Y’all should bring it back to common use and rejoin the civilized world by overmorrow evening.
I feel we should simplify that even further by saying undermorrow.
…to mean “today”? (as in, the day before tomorrow)
No, the underneath of the day after tomorrow (night), as opposed to the above (morning, or day).
It is an official word, but nobody uses it anymore in English. Same goes for ereyesterday (the day before yesterday)
Well, we can fix that.
We already have that in German! Morgen and Übermorgen (Über- = over-)
Same in Danish, overmorgen