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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

But there is no single word in modern English for "the day after tomorrow" or "the day before yesterday".

In other languages, maybe. But not in English.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Overmorrow?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Tomomorrow?

Yestesterday?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I like "Yestesterday"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Be the change you want to see in the word.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

as has already been said, overmorrow is already mostly a thing and is completely cromulent, and i propose taking the swedish "förrgår" and bringing it in as something like "foremorrow" which sounds reasonably cromulent to my ear, might confuse people a little bit but the "fore" bit is a pretty big hint as to what it means.