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[–] bss03@infosec.pub 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I don't know why, but this made me audibly giggle. I'm not sure if it's Charon's confusion in the penultimate panel, or the possum's gleeful/eager expression in the ultimate one.

[–] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 2 days ago

Last line gets me

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Who wrote this?? Nobody says "penultimate"!

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 3 points 1 day ago

I wrote this. I so rarely get to use the word "penultimate"; I wanted to. It was especially cool to be able to pair it to "ultimate" meaning "last" instead of (the more colloquial) "greatest".

Penultimate isn't that uncommon? Just because you don't personally hear it in your day-to-day life doesn't mean other people don't use it.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=penultimate%2Csecond+last%2Csecond+to+last%2Cnext+to+last&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3