{"id":1510,"date":"2012-08-16T12:02:36","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T16:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2012-08-16T12:02:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T16:02:36","slug":"prepostulate-all-i-had-was-a-wooden-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1510","title":{"rendered":"Prepostulate: All I had was a wooden brain&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>n.<\/em> A person who, using an example from their own life, steers people away from a line of speculation by reducing it to an absurdity. <em>v.<\/em> To dismantle a logical argument with piles of passionate incoherence.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/wrang.gif\" alt=\"All I had was a wooden brain...\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prepostulate<\/strong>:  \/<em>pre-PAWST-yew-layt<\/em>\/ In giving reasons to others in defense of his sometimes goofy notions,  Elmer would regularly prepostulate,  rambling on with odd and sometimes even bizarre rationale. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Blend of the words &#8216;preposterous&#8217; (adj. contrary to nature, reason, or common sense) and &#8216;postulate&#8217;  (to claim or assume the existence or truth of, especially as a basis for reasoning or arguing) <em>Created by:<\/em> Mustang.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Flawgic<\/strong>:  \/<em>flaw jik<\/em>\/ When Vanessa asked her father for a new computer, he tried to diminish its value.  His flawgic was not understanding that in today&#8217;s Internet world, his daughter could easily draw her own conclusions, based on accurate data.  His daughter was not a silicone chip off the old block! <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Flaw (add a flaw or blemish to; make imperfect or defective) &amp; Logic (reasoned and reasonable judgment) <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Disingenue<\/strong>:  \/<em>dis-in-jen-oo<\/em>\/ Doug really believes that by being a disingenue he can make people change their viewpoints. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  a contraction of &#8220;disingenuous&#8221; (not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than one really does) and &#8220;ingenue&#8221; &#8211; a harmless, naive character <em>Created by:<\/em> Koekbroer.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=wrang\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=wrang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be Creative, <\/p>\n<p>James<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\">www.verbotomy.com<\/a><br \/>\nthe create-a-word game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFINITION: n. A person who, using an example from their own life, steers people away from a line of speculation by reducing it to an absurdity. v. To dismantle a logical argument with piles of passionate incoherence. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Prepostulate: \/pre-PAWST-yew-layt\/ In giving reasons to others in defense of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1510\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Prepostulate: All I had was a wooden brain&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[90,83,82,93,84,89,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}