Incidentally, about pre-prep...
Mar. 30th, 2008 02:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly
There's always somebody who gets their dander up, saying that "prepare" means to make something in advance, that's what the "pre" means, and so "pre-prepare" is redundant.
And they're right, kinda, but all the same I'd like to direct their attention to the fact that prepare (literally prae-parare) already means to pre-prepare, so I'm not being redundant, simply witty and maybe a little overfond of etymology.
Besides, pre-prep has to do with preparing to prepare, and it actually means something different anyway.
And they're right, kinda, but all the same I'd like to direct their attention to the fact that prepare (literally prae-parare) already means to pre-prepare, so I'm not being redundant, simply witty and maybe a little overfond of etymology.
Besides, pre-prep has to do with preparing to prepare, and it actually means something different anyway.
