No Stupid Questions

No. It means Ble likes both girls and boys.

Two bles.

The old and new testament together are two, thus "Bible".

Before the new testament they just carried around a ble.

I know you're making a joke, but on the off chance someone thinks you might be onto something: it's from biblio, or book.

I'm on your side. Your rule makes sense, and what other people are doing doesn't make sense.

Stick to your rule and tell everyone else they're wrong.

We should all agree it means twice a week. As we already have fortnightly to mean every two weeks.

thanks for the explanation, as an Australian reading this I had no idea what was going on cause bi-weekly means bi-weekly here and fortnight is every two weeks.

Til Americans don't have fortnights...

Frustratingly, "biannual" can also mean twice a year or every two years. Fortunately there is the "biennial" which unambiguously means every two years.

Bi-weekly means twice a week, and bi-monthly (Which outside of banking I've never heard anyone ever use) means every 2 weeks.

So if I do something bi-weekly then in a month I've done it eight times. If I do something bi-monthly then in a month I've done it two times.

English is stupid. Even native speakers don't understand it.

Interestingly enough my spell check refuses to even acknowledge that bi-monthly is a valid word. It's fine with bi-weekly though. So it's entirely possible there is actually no such word and it's just been created by the banking industry to get around the fact that for some reason they can't use fortnight.

Semi weekly sounds like it means every two weeks

Canadian here, with 50 years in the workforce. I've never once been paid semi-weekly or bimonthly. Here, biweekly is every two weeks semi-monthly is every half month. Obviously, that latter is often spoken of as twice a month, which just adds to the confusion between "bi" and "semi".

The reality is that these words, like most words (at least in English), mean whatever the speaker wants them to mean and consensus can be hard to reach.

I give you the phrase "table the discussion". Sometimes it means to formally bring something up for discussion. Other times it means setting the discussion aside for future consideration.

Or, my favourite from my childhood, "fat chance" which means that something is even less likely than if it had a slim chance. Granted, that might be more in the line of idiomatic slang, but it stands as part of at least the era's Canadian English that did have broad consensus and still does, I think.

That's insane I would understand both of those terms to mean the exact opposite of what you described.

Also who gets paid twice a week and how do I arrange for that.

That seems backwards to me. Mainly because if you move it to years instead of weeks, something that happens twice a year happens in half a year (semiannual) while something that happens every other year happens in 2 years (biannual).

Of course, I guess you you argue that it isn't much time for the thing to happen, but how many times it does happen. The shareholders meeting happens in January and July, so it happens twice in a year, and it should be semiannual. This is because it happens is semi-year, or 6 months. But you could argue that it happens twice in a year, so has bi-annually.

I realized I may have talked out of my original point, but I feel like my initial comment (semiannual is 6 months, and biannual is 24 months) is easier to understand.

Use it in a sentence:

I used to get hard every day, but now I'm lucky to get a semiweekly

Lmao I'd interpret that as every two weeks. Semi meaning "almost", so "semiweekly" would mean almost weekly, hence, every two weeks. I guess you could think "almost" the other way but I feel like semi is usually used in a way that is "quite but not as good", twice a week would be more than once a week so I semi would have to be every two weeks in my mind.

Fortnight is in routine usage in the UK.

Old word?

Only in America, surely. Fortnightly is as common as weekly in most other English-speaking nations

Oh, I didn't get the memo, I used fortnight/ly all the time

Very commonly used in Australia.