Comment on A happy consequence should be called a prosequence

• bizarroland@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think that would be presequence.

  Pro means on behalf of or forward, so a prosequence would be something that pushes the sequence forward, a prosequence would be something like, “you know there is a bomb that is about to go off, and if you do not dismantle it, your child will die. So you must attempt to defuse the bomb at the risk of your own life”.

  The placement and triggering of the bomb is the prosequence that has led you to this point.

  It could also be something like you were walking by a gas station and your hand started itching, so you went and bought a lottery ticket and won the lottery. The itchy hand would be the prosequence that pushed you towards winning the lottery.

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  • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That is the “antecedent”,

    Antecedent: A preceding occurrence, cause, or event.

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    • bizarroland@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s actually a very good catch.

      I didn’t think about the word antecedent, but I would say that there is a slight linguistic difference between an antecedent and a prosequence.

      A prosequence is a sequence of events, whereas an antecedent doesn’t have to necessarily be a series of events.

      For instance, in order to have a sequel to a book, you have to have the original book. The original book would be the antecedent of the sequel, whereas the prosequence of the sequel would be writing the first book, which led to the series of events that caused the second book to be written.

      So every prosequence would be an antecedent, but not every antecedent would be a prosequence.

      That being said, I am just making up words, so if the world disagrees with my definitions, then the world gets to choose what they prefer, because that’s how language works.

      Just like the creator of the word GIF pronounces it as JIF, even though everyone knows its GIF.

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      • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Fair, antecedent is usually referring to a singular event/trigger.

        Also 100% on board with GIF ignoring the original authors intent.

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