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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 1 of 5 1 2 3 4 5 #86731 - 11/12/02 02:28 PM Preponement?   Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 11 mph stranger mph   stranger Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 11 A colleague of mine was just asked if they could prepone a meeting i.e. bring it forward. Is this a legitimate antonym of to postpone or a newly made up nonsense word? #86732 - 11/12/02 02:43 PM Re: Preponement?   Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 prepone - PREPONE. South Asian speakers have evolved the logical word "prepone" to mean the opposite of "postpone": to move forward in time. ... http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/prepone.html At first I thought the coinage clumsy, but on second thought, I'm surprised ;it didn't happen a long time ago. #86733 - 11/12/02 02:49 PM Re: Preponement?   Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,773 Sparteye Pooh-Bah Sparteye   Pooh-Bah Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,773 Hello mph. May I call you Miles? I suspect that "prepone" is a jocular construct akin to the modern use of "couth". Google shows 2,730 hits, but they are mostly non-English sites or apparently the name of a hurtler. Still, there are plenty of instances of "prepone" as you have posited it, and I've used it myself, so it must be a goodly word . Here is a link to a discussion of prepone when used in the contra-postpone sense: http://theatlantic.com/unbound/fugitives/moveitup.htm Interestingly, there is an American Sign Language sign for this concept, and the New Oxford Dictionary of English lists it. Also interestingly, I see that our own tsuwm participated in that discussion. #86734 - 11/12/02 03:54 PM Re: Preponement?   Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 there is an American Sign Language sign for this concept Is the ASL of a form that could fit the construction, i.e., with a pone component and a pre component with a corresponding sign for the postpone concept that has a differing post component and an identical pone component? Are there other words well accepted in English that have pre- and post- forms that I just can't seem to think of off the top of my head? #86735 - 11/12/02 04:08 PM Re: Preponement?   Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 11 mph stranger mph   stranger Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 11 Or Mike. Please do - I'm a friendly kinda guy. Thanks for the replies. It seems to have enough credentials for me to further propogate its usage... #86736 - 11/12/02 04:28 PM Re: Preponement?   Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear Faldage: there are quite a few such pairs. prewar, postwar, etc. But many pre-s and post-s could be made into word-game candidates. Do you have to be a premistress before you can become a postmistress? #86737 - 11/12/02 04:41 PM Re: Preponement?   Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Yeahbut®, how about words where the part after the pre/post isn't used all by its lonesome. I've thought of prelude and postlude. We even have interlude, but no lude. #86738 - 11/12/02 05:32 PM Re: Preponement?   Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 lude n. 5< QUAALUDE6 [Slang] a methaqualone pill #86739 - 11/12/02 06:06 PM Re: Preponement?   Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York lude Go get 'im, Dr. Bill! #86740 - 11/12/02 06:15 PM Re: Ludes   Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 So prelude is the feeling I get that makes me want to take ludes, postlude is the morning after feeling and interlude is my feeling while still under the influence? Page 1 of 5 1 2 3 4 5 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) 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