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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Last would be the one before the current one, not the current one.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Technically the correct term is "prior."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

More accurately, "prior" is much less ambiguous than "last" and thus more likely to satisfy the predilections of a pedant.

Gosh I love the depth of pedantry available to descriptivists!