A happy consequence should be called a prosequence

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Only if you don’t bother to learn what the words you use mean.

  Inherited from Middle English con-, from Latin con-, from cum (“with”). … Indicating a common origin, from, coming from the root: consequence as what comes from the sequence

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  • XiELEd@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    prosequence would probably be… before sequence?

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    • bizarroland@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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  • nieminen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So kids can be called… Cumsequences?..

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    • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Only if you are a really bad father.

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  • flueterflam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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    • ik5pvx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I think he was talking about the con_ in consequence

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• wabafee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  A bad prostitution results to a constitution?

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  • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Good constitution must be called prostitution

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• schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  wait until you find out what the opposite of progress is

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Antigress

    We should change the name to that for accuracy.

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• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I guess Funeral Processions are a good thing?

  Wtf is a Funeral Concession? Only transporting half of a body?

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  • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’d sell ice-pops at a funeral concessions stand, that’s for sure.

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Using con the same way it would mean everyone at the funeral dies.

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  • spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I fear there are heavy “lunch is served” overtones to this, and I don’t mean a catered meal 😬

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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• finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  So you could have a prosequence with a prostitute, but a bad experience would be a consequence of a constitute?

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• melfie@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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• slowtrain33@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The more I think about this the I like it.

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