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Comment author: wedrifid 05 January 2012 09:09:34PM 0 points [-]

Charity led me to understand "precedes us" to mean takes precedence over us in a non-chronological sense.

Charity led me to understand that, because the use of that word only makes sense in the case time travel, he just meant to use another word that means succeeds, replaces or 'is greater than'. But time travel is more interesting.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 05 January 2012 09:56:10PM 0 points [-]

Google led me to understand that 'precede' is in fact such a word. Agreed about time travel, though.

Comment author: wedrifid 05 January 2012 09:56:59PM 0 points [-]

(My googling leads me to maintain that the use of precede in that context remains wrong.)

Comment author: MixedNuts 05 January 2012 09:14:07PM 0 points [-]

he

I can't find a source for that pronoun in Dwelle's past posts.