Note: Please refer to a previous blog post for a definition of the words Inglish and Engrish.
Usually, PhD students or researchers here need to make a presentation about the progress of their work on a given schedule, but normally some would postpone their presentation a week or more later. I on the other hand, scheduled for a presentation on November 6, asked to present one week earlier. So one of the students asked me, "You preponed your presentation?" I said, "What?" He said, "Prepone." I said, "I never heard of that word before." He said, "It's the opposite of postpone."
So I looked it up on Google. Did I just not know this word existed in English? (I'm talking about American English, of course, or even British English.) So this is the Google search link: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=&q=what+does+the+word+prepone+mean%3F&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=fw.
Apparently, it is not American nor British nor Australian English. That's why I never heard of "prepone" - because it isn't English. But it does exist - in the Inglish language.
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