Semiannual, last I heard, mean's every 6 months. There's nothing in the definition that would make it acceptable to mean "once a year, but 6 months after the other one that we refer to as annual". But yet that's exactly what the church uses it to mean in reference to general conference!
Can someone explain how they can get away with this? Do they think their tax exempt status makes them dictionary exempt as well?? I think I was confused by this for about the first 25 years of my life. (Me: "Wait, wasn't the last one the 160th??") I'm still outraged by it. I'm tempted to boycott conference or start a Facebook group demanding that the naming convention be changed.
Aside from that, conference was really good.
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I've often wondered about this myself.
Oh weird, I thought they just called all of them semiannual, I didn't know they call the April one annual and the October one semiannual. I mean, they are all semiannual, so they could just call them all that...but then it might be the 358th semiannual GC.
I've always thought it was weird, but the numbering is the same for the whole year. So 160th would be the same for April and October. It is "paused" at the end of the April conference, and it really "concludes" at the end of October conference. It doesn't make any sense. Maybe you should write a letter to church headquarters.
It would make sense if the semi-annual one was different from the annual one. But since they're exactly the same, it's just silly.
They probably do it so that they both have the same number but not the same name. Not sure why 179th April Conf and 179th October Conf wouldn't work.
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