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SMART TALK by Dr. Will S. Sert
FOREWARN: At the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, patients are taught how to test for redundancies: Do a term's opposites or alternatives make sense?
If "postwarn" is as silly as "postpone until earlier," then maybe the term should stand on its own, prefix-free.
For instance, some of our patients preplan their actions. Why can't they plan anything? Maybe we should call hindsight "postplanning."
After treatment in the Edwin Newman Clinic for Temporal Retentives, patients begin to listen better and clean up their language. The sharp ones even see the absurdity in preregister, and apply elsewhere if a school asks them to preregister in advance.
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