Wordsmith Talk |
About Us | What's New | Search | Site Map | Contact Us | |||
Register Log In Wordsmith.org Forums General Topics Q&A about words The last time I did this
Previous Thread
Next Thread
Print Thread
OP How did the word last come to mean both the final time ("this is the last time I do this") and the previous time "the last time I did this it was a big fiasco, that's why I'm doing it over".
This doesn't make sense to me. We have the same thing in French with the same word - dernière/dernier
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted The last time I did this belMarduk 04/21/02 02:54 PM Re: The last time I did this Faldage 04/21/02 03:51 PM Re: The last time I did this Keiva 04/21/02 04:00 PM Re: The last time I did this wwh 04/21/02 04:03 PM Re: The last time I did this Bean 04/23/02 11:46 AM Re: The last time I did this Wordwind 04/23/02 11:59 AM Re: The last time I did this Bean 04/23/02 12:02 PM Re: Barenaked Ladies Wordwind 04/23/02 12:05 PM Re: The last time I did this wsieber 04/23/02 12:50 PM Re: The last time I did this Jackie 04/23/02 05:09 PM Re: The last time I did this of troy 04/23/02 05:12 PM Re: The last time I did this consuelo 04/24/02 02:55 AM Re: The last time I did this Angel 04/24/02 03:20 AM Re: The last time I did this Jackie 04/25/02 01:56 AM Re: The last time I did this consuelo 04/25/02 02:18 AM
Moderated by Jackie
Link Copied to Clipboard
Forum Statistics Forums16Topics13,913Posts229,343Members9,182 Most Online3,341
Dec 9th, 2011
Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV
9,182 Registered Users
Who's Online Now 0 members (), 757 guests, and 1 robot. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod
Top Posters(30 Days) A C Bowden 19ddrinnan 1
Top Posters wwh 13,858Faldage 13,803Jackie 11,613wofahulicodoc 10,546tsuwm 10,542LukeJavan8 9,918Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210AnnaStrophic 6,511Wordwind 6,296of troy 5,400
Forum Rules · Mark All Read Contact Us · Forum Help · Wordsmith.org