The word “elsewhere” conveniently exist to spare us the chore of saying “somewhere else”. Why then do we waste or time saying “someone else” or “some other time”?

  • GreyShuck
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    4 days ago

    It seems that elsewhen, and a lot of other variations - used to be used, but fell out of fashion. There is some discussion here.

    • loaExMachina@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      Cool, thank you! I find it’s a shame these words went out of use, like found out about the words “whence”, “whither”, “thence” and “thither”, I feel using them would rid many sentences of superfluous words. But I’m sure if I did, I’d sound pretentious at best or be misunderstood at worst.

  • sudo42@lemmy.world
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    Don’t ask. Just start using it. If others like it and it catches on, eventually it will be put in the OED.

    There wasn’t a language conference that ok’d ‘skibidy toilet’ before it could be used.

  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee
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    We do have the word elsewhen, it’s just not as commonly used. As for ‘someone else’, I have nothing.

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      3 days ago

      I found “elsewho” through another comment, it makes sense, I actually hesitated between typing it or “elseone”. I chose the latter because you say “someone else” and not “somewho else”; but “who” is closer to "where or “when”.