Urban Word of The Day: Pre-Sequitur
Like a non-sequitur, a pre-sequitur doesn't follow what immediately preceded it, but instead relates to something that came much earlier. It is a sudden or jarring break in the chronology, but it does follow... when you remember what it refers to.
Jen: Why did you leave Los Angeles?
Keith: Well... have you ever lived there?
Jen: I visited once, for a week. I liked the street performers on the boardwalk...
Keith: Oh, the boardwalk is where I got this red scarf!
Jen: I was trying to knit a scarf just like that last year but I never finished.
Keith: Where do you get yarn around here?
Jen: There's a good store just a few blocks from here, wanna come see?
... ten minutes later ...
Jen: Huh, do you smell Indian food?
Keith: Hmm, not really... but now I'm in the mood to get some Indian Food.
Jen: Sure, let's!
Keith: It was the pollution, that's why.
Jen: pollution?
Keith: Yeah, I wanted somewhere with real air, and LA wasn't it!
Jen: Oh, why you left Los Angeles!
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3 comments:
hahahahahahahaha!!!!
Gosh i met people like that...actually now i think of it...i might be a little like that too! Darn!
Is this a real word or are you yanking my chain? Cuz you know, sometimes chains break, like when I had this necklace and I was wearing it, you know? and I looked down and it was gone. So I says to my friend, Elyse, who was my roommate in college, dammit, I think I lost my necklace! I just saw her last summer in Virginia and she's still just as much fun as ever and Norfolk is beautiful. So is it?
Dr. Doolittle is the master of such talk. I call it mental whiplash.
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