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[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (10 children)

Syban is probably designed by a man.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago (6 children)

Probably a group of engineers so maybe not all men, Sybian is just like the penultimate vibrator, would be a fun engineering challenge, but it's also a marketable challenge which would be why it exists

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (5 children)

Penultimate? Which one is the ultimate then?

[–] Jyek 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

In this case penultimate is used to describe something that is nearly perfect. As if to say, there is little room for improvement.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Penultimate means "next to last", and that's it.

[–] Jyek 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Why do you think that? I have seen and heard the use of the word "penultimate" as a literary device to praise something very good. It's not even that big of a stretch. I'm sorry people only ever use words to mean exactly how they are defined in the dictionary when around you. Also, words are meaningless without the people who use them. Why don't you try correcting people less and instead, when you think someone is using words incorrectly, try to understand in what way they could be correct.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

After all my days on Reddit and Lemmy, I am still amused by how conversations about female sex robots can somehow morph into a heated discussion about grammar or definitions.

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