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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:	The Joy of Lex
Notice:	A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:	THEBAY::SYSTEM

Created:	Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:	Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1192
Total number of notes:	42769

863.0. "Pre-posterous!" by DOOZER::VTX (Polly Glott) Fri Jan 18 1991 17:45

    I have come across "pre-sliced bread rolls", "pre-rolled finger
    bandage" and "pre-owned cars" to describe, respectively:
    sliced bread rolls, rolled finger bandage and cars previously owned
    by other people.
    
    In striving to describe that something has been done to a product,
    for your convenience, before you buy it, manufacturers and suppliers
    have taken to using the prefix "pre-".
    
    Surely, if something is in a "pre-sliced" state, it is not yet sliced!
    And so on...
    
    Any other (or similar) examples?  I have pre-prepared this basenote
    for your reply...
    
    Polly

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
863.1	pre-shrunk jeans	SWAM2::HOMEYER_CH	No, but you can see it from here	`Fri Jan 18 1991 20:24`	1

863.2	How about pre-late	EVETPU::FRIDAY	Sisyphus had a well defined job	`Fri Jan 18 1991 22:02`	1

863.3	pre-postpaid	JIT081::DIAMOND	This note is illegal tender.	`Sat Jan 19 1991 05:13`	0
863.4	From the VMS domain: pre-expired password	NEMAIL::KALIKOWD	Iraqi Horror Picture Show :-(	`Sat Jan 19 1991 14:30`	1

863.5	Another from VMS	HARDY::MATTHEWS		`Mon Jan 21 1991 16:56`	4
	The VMS system dump analyzer displays the number of "prereserved" pages in a page file. (I QARed it.) Val
863.6	Pre-Installed	ODIXIE::LAMBKE	Hunkering Down	`Wed Jan 23 1991 22:27`	1
	The new DECsystem 5100 has it's software Factory Installed.
863.7	pre-read books	STAR::SZETO	Simon Szeto, International Sys. Eng.	`Sun Feb 10 1991 04:53`	5
	Today I bought a few pre-read books. They looked like new, although others on the shelf looked obviously used. --Simon
863.8	prep	SSDEVO::GOLDSTEIN		`Mon Feb 11 1991 21:07`	4
	The last time I bought a pre-read book I found that, much to my horror, all of the pages had been pre-printed. Bernie
863.9		TERZA::ZANE	War is Hell. -- Sherman	`Tue Feb 12 1991 16:01`	4
	And I suppose a tree is pre-recycled paper.