Aposteriorious

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  • a posteriori: knowledge based on experience, cf. aprioric in the text sentence.
  • preposterous
  • "It seems clear that the ideal way of constructing an a posteriori language would be to make the root-words monosyllabic, and build up the whole vocabulary on them, without any borrowed words; and to make the grammar a priori in spirit as well as form - independent of European grammar and parts of speech, no concord, no verbs, etc." (Jespersen, An International Language (quoting Sweet)
    • Otto Jespersen (Danish: [1860 – 1943): a Danish linguist who specialized in the grammar of the English language.
    • Henry Sweet (1845 – 1912): an English philologist, phonetician and grammarian.
  • apostate