when one prefix just isn't enough...

[Charles Doyle]

That's preposterous!

--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:57:43 -0400
>From: Marc Velasco <marcjvelasco at GMAIL.COM>
>Subject: when one prefix just isn't enough...
>
>pre-postmortem.
>
>Example: Mr. McCain may still win the election. Still, anticipating that he will fall short, the _pre-postmortems_ have already begun, both inside and outside his campaign headquarters.
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>found here: www.nytimes.com/2008/10/27/us/politics/27web-nagourney.html
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>but also readily available on the internet (google hits ~ 214).
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>Contexts include both politics and general business/industry, where any project that can have a normal postmortem analysis of what went right and wrong, can also have a preemptive postmortem, which would presumably include a lot of 'blame-casting.'
>
>Apparently medical school teaches doctors to refer to pre-postmortems simply as diagnoses.

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