ELH FAQ - minor updates
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Zhure
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Main Entry: pen·ul·ti·mate
Pronunciation: pi-'n&l-t&-m&t
Function: adjective
Date: 1677
1 : next to the last <the penultimate chapter of a book>
2 : of or relating to a penult <a penultimate accent>
- pen·ul·ti·mate·ly adverb
It's use in Latin is derived from the typical accentation being on the penult syllable.
Greg
Pronunciation: pi-'n&l-t&-m&t
Function: adjective
Date: 1677
1 : next to the last <the penultimate chapter of a book>
2 : of or relating to a penult <a penultimate accent>
- pen·ul·ti·mate·ly adverb
It's use in Latin is derived from the typical accentation being on the penult syllable.
Greg
CRGreathouse
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It means "second-to-best" in this context. I had to leave room for Deities and Demigods, you know. 
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Gez
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Yeah, penultimate is not really a superlative.
Literraly, it means "just before the last". "Ultimate" being "the last", and "pen" "just before".
It's funny that "ultimate" is used in a laudative fashion, while "last" is rather pejorative, unless used to means "last remaining". In this context, "penultimate" could mean "predecessor of the last remaining". A penultimate farmer could be, for example, a pregnant woman who happen to be the sole survivor of a planet-wide cataclysm. Her only children would be the ultimate farmer. Farmer, because being the sole survivor of a cataclysm don't remove the need to eat, and growing crops is the easiest way to get fed when you're alone in the world.
Literraly, it means "just before the last". "Ultimate" being "the last", and "pen" "just before".
It's funny that "ultimate" is used in a laudative fashion, while "last" is rather pejorative, unless used to means "last remaining". In this context, "penultimate" could mean "predecessor of the last remaining". A penultimate farmer could be, for example, a pregnant woman who happen to be the sole survivor of a planet-wide cataclysm. Her only children would be the ultimate farmer. Farmer, because being the sole survivor of a cataclysm don't remove the need to eat, and growing crops is the easiest way to get fed when you're alone in the world.
drnuncheon
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I'm actually perfectly aware of that, I was just continuing the joke from the earlier posts.
J
The ultimate farmer is the guy growing oranges in Alaska.
SpikeyFreak said:
I'm actually perfectly aware of that, I was just continuing the joke from the earlier posts.
J
The ultimate farmer is the guy growing oranges in Alaska.
SpikeyFreak
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Hmm, are you sure you don't mean IRregardless?Regardless, he would certainly be a man out standing in his field!
I can't stop smirkling at that pun.
--Smirking Spikey
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There are a couple of them, they just do it indoors. Now outdoors is another matter entirely although there might be a couple that could do so in the lower reaches of the Panhandle.
As I am originally from AK I felt I had to remark on this one!
drnuncheon said:
There are a couple of them, they just do it indoors. Now outdoors is another matter entirely although there might be a couple that could do so in the lower reaches of the Panhandle.
As I am originally from AK I felt I had to remark on this one!
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