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Re: "Prepend" doesn't mean what you think it means


Interesting.  I wonder what James Kirkpatrick's ruling would be.
The powerful virtue of the English language is that new words
can be invented and English-speaking people automatically understand
the idea behind the new word.  This example seems to be an unfortunate
collision of an invented word with an old obscure word.

Would James say `Revere the dead' or `Out with the old, in with
the new'  ??

Greg

Clarke Echols wrote:
>
> There is a word, invented at AT&T decades ago, that now pervades the
> Unix world that is _WRONG_ and needs to be stamped out in the interest
> of preserving the "mother tongue"!
[snip]
> "Prepend" is a very obscure word which means literally to premeditate,
> as in, "He looked at her with malice prepended."

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