Outrageously Funny Word Dictionary :: Pretermitter

👉 In linguistics, "pretermitter" is a term used to describe a speaker or listener who has already taken an action that is not yet complete. This can be thought of as a "reversal of causality," where the speaker is saying something and then waiting for something else to happen before continuing their statement. For example, if someone says, "I'll get there in 10 minutes," they are pretermitter because they have already taken this action (getting there)

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