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@feddit.uk
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    3 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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      3 days ago

      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.