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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: Preponement? #86732 11/12/02 02:43 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W 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. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Preponement? mph 11/12/02 02:28 PM Re: Preponement? wwh 11/12/02 02:43 PM Re: Preponement? Sparteye 11/12/02 02:49 PM Re: Preponement? Faldage 11/12/02 03:54 PM Re: Preponement? mph 11/12/02 04:08 PM Re: Preponement? wwh 11/12/02 04:28 PM Re: Preponement? Faldage 11/12/02 04:41 PM Re: Preponement? wwh 11/12/02 05:32 PM Re: Preponement? AnnaStrophic 11/12/02 06:06 PM Re: Ludes Faldage 11/12/02 06:15 PM Re: Ludes Fiberbabe 11/12/02 09:08 PM that's the reason they're called "minutes" wofahulicodoc 11/12/02 09:47 PM Re: that's the reason they're called "minutes" RhubarbCommando 11/13/02 08:09 AM meetings mph 11/13/02 03:27 PM Re: Ludes mph 11/13/02 09:43 AM compulsory prefixes mph 11/14/02 03:32 PM Re: surrection Jackie 05/26/04 02:37 PM Re: surrection AnnaStrophic 05/26/04 03:01 PM Re: surrection Capfka 05/26/04 05:08 PM Re: surrection Buffalo Shrdlu 05/26/04 05:21 PM Re: surrection Capfka 05/26/04 10:27 PM t, are you some kind of dadaist? TEd Remington 05/27/04 08:40 AM Re: surrection Jackie 05/27/04 12:22 PM Yipes! AnnaStrophic 05/27/04 03:34 PM Re: Yipes! tsuwm 05/27/04 05:50 PM Looky what I found Faldage 05/27/04 06:16 PM Re: Yipes! Jackie 05/28/04 11:20 AM So Faldage 05/29/04 01:02 AM Re: So Jackie 06/01/04 12:33 AM Re: So shanks 06/03/04 05:12 PM Thanks, Jackie Flatlander 05/27/04 12:21 PM Re: Preponement? mph 11/13/02 09:35 AM Re: Preponement? RhubarbCommando 11/13/02 09:43 AM Re: Preponement? Faldage 11/13/02 10:57 AM Re: Preponement? RhubarbCommando 11/13/02 11:50 AM Re: Preponement? Jackie 11/13/02 12:38 PM Re: Preponement? mph 11/13/02 04:25 PM Re: Preponement? Faldage 11/13/02 04:30 PM Re: Preponement? mph 11/14/02 09:41 AM Re: Europanto Faldage 11/14/02 10:48 AM Re: Europanto mph 11/14/02 11:08 AM Re: Preponement? AnnaStrophic 11/13/02 01:31 PM Re: Preponement? mph 11/13/02 04:04 PM 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,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,317 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 688 guests, and 1 robot. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 31 A C Bowden 13 LukeJavan8 1 ddrinnan 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 tsuwm 10,542 wofahulicodoc 10,534 LukeJavan8 9,916 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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