GDT: PENULTIMATE REGULAR SEASON GAME: Aves/Jehts, Decidedly Un-Epic GDT

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expatriatedtexan

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Let's get this thread back on track. I need help with some etymology...Why do we use Latin to call the second to last game Penultimate, but we don't actually call the final game the Ultimate game?

As a native English speaker, even I think our language is weird at times.
 
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Let's get this thread back on track. I need help with some etymology...Why do we use Latin to call the second to last game Penultimate, but we don't actually call the final game the Ultimate game?

As a native English speaker, even I think our language is weird at times.
Hmm. That's interesting. Because you absolutely can, since that's what it means. It is of course used to mean the extreme, or even sometimes the last or greatest possible in a series which is technically the same... but very rarely like that.

Another very important thing to note is that there's also technically the antepenultimate, preantepenultimate, and propreantepenultimate.
 

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Let's get this thread back on track. I need help with some etymology...Why do we use Latin to call the second to last game Penultimate, but we don't actually call the final game the Ultimate game?

As a native English speaker, even I think our language is weird at times.
When people see "Ultimate" they rarely think of it as and adjective and only see it as a noun. And no one would describe tomorrow's game as the "best".
 
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