In message <19981007143137.16242.richw@webcom.com>, Rich Wales <richw@webcom.com> writes
Question: What precisely does "proleptic" mean and where is it defined? . . . (I suspect it means "extended before the time it was defined", but would like to get a confirmation and reference.)
My sense (as an educated native speaker of American English) is that "proleptic" and "prolepsis" are not commonly known or used by the aver- age English-speaking person.
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