Date:    Wed, 24 Jun 1998 18:49:16 -0500
<br>From:    Mark Mandel <Mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]DRAGONSYS.COM>
<br>Subject: PREPONE
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<br>My cross-posting of this question to SLLING-L, the sign language linguistics
<br>list, has evoked another response.
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<br>       Mark A. Mandel : Senior Linguist : mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]dragonsys.com
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<br>Date:    Tue, 23 Jun 1998 23:17:48 -0800
<br>From:    Nancy Frishberg <nancyf[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]FISHBIRD.COM>
<br>Subject: Re: "PREPONE"
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<br>Mark,
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<br>I know that we used PREPONE, as a clever neologism - using Tane's locution
<br>- at Salk from 1970 onward.  When I worked with our deaf consultant, Bonnie
<br>Gough, she and I were making morphologically related lists of signs, and this
<br> one obviously fit in a "family" with
<br>POSTPONE, among others, so it seemed natural that it should be named with the
<br> gap in our English.  Susan
<br>Fischer may have coined it, or it may have spontaneously come up for several of
<br> us, but we used it in English as the
<br>name of the sign.
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<br>This is the first I've heard of any English dialect using it regularly.
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<br>Nancy Frishberg  +1 650.654.1948  nancyf[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]fishbird.com
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