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#86741 - 11/12/02 04:08 PM Re: Ludes
Fiberbabe old hand Registered: 01/12/01 Posts: 771 Loc: Portland, Oregon	And corn pone is what you eat while you're deciding when the meeting is really going to take place.
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#86742 - 11/12/02 04:47 PM that's the reason they're called "minutes"
wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/06/01 Posts: 3786 Loc: Worcester, MA	...and a quick meeting without a break is a pone express
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#86743 - 11/13/02 03:09 AM Re: that's the reason they're called "minutes"
RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/23/00 Posts: 2204	So is a telephone conference a phone pone?
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#86744 - 11/13/02 04:35 AM Re: Preponement?
mph stranger Registered: 11/12/02 Posts: 11	Likewise, what steps do you have to go through before you become a postmaster pastmaster...
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#86745 - 11/13/02 04:43 AM Re: Ludes
mph stranger Registered: 11/12/02 Posts: 11	I guess these ludes are quite metallic, since I'm always hearing about "lude conduct".
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#86746 - 11/13/02 04:43 AM Re: Preponement?
RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/23/00 Posts: 2204	getting pist, maybe
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#86747 - 11/13/02 05:57 AM Re: Preponement?
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13654	a legitimate antonym of to postpone or a newly made up nonsense word? Or are these categories mutually exclusive or even comprehensive? Can it be that we've gone all these many years without a word for this concept? We can say "rescheduled for an earlier time" but.
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#86748 - 11/13/02 06:50 AM Re: Preponement?
RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/23/00 Posts: 2204	I do have to say that preponement has been such a rare event in my life that a special word has never been necessary :-( On the very few occasions when it has occurred, a note or phone call asking if we could change the time/date to such and such, with a reason for the change, is all that has happened. That isn't a valid reason for *not having a word, but!
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#86749 - 11/13/02 07:38 AM Re: Preponement?
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11578 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	Welcome aBoard, Mike--glad to have you! I've sent off to Brandon, our resident ASL expert (literally); with luck, he'll chime in with some enlightenment. Dr. Bill expressed perfectly how I feel about this word, which I had not heard before: At first I thought the coinage clumsy, but on second thought, I'm surprised ;it didn't happen a long time ago. Meetings do, after all, get moved up all the time--someone has to go out of town, or the disaster is arriving sooner than expected, etc. Here's the "entomology" (remember, tsuwm?) from a person on the site Sparteye gave: Topic: 5) Move it up (11 of 11), Read 36 times Conf: Word Fugitives, with Barbara Wallraff From: Dorothy Glantz (dml.glantz@swipnet.se) Date: Saturday, November 20, 1999 06:28 AM The word 'prepone' is found in The New Oxford Dictionary of English, published 1998. It is listed as being Indian (from India) and is defined as: to bring forward to an earlier date or time. Example given: The publication date has been preponed from July to June. Surprisingly, its origin according to New Oxford is the 1970's! Um--if it is bad form to quote from one word site on another one, would someone please let me know asap, and I'll delete?
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#86750 - 11/13/02 08:31 AM Re: Preponement?
AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6511 Loc: lower upstate New York	Well, there's "move up" and "move back", but I can never remember which is which.
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