Why does nobody plan any more?

[HamishR]

Remember when we used to plan what we were gong to do? We'd plan a project, or plan a trip, or book a table or book a ticket? Now everything has to be pre-planned or pre-booked. What does pre-plan even mean? Is it the planning you do before you plan something? Or do you pre-book to book a ticket?

I just read on the BBC about a locked up convict who apparently pre-planned his escape. Didn't he actually just (boringly) plan it? Why is everything pre-planned or pre-booked these days?

 

[Erik S]

I'm going to make a plan tomorrow.

 

[HamishR]

Well that is pre-planning. But once you make those plans they're plans, not pre-plans. Does an architect layout the drawings for your house and say "Here are the pre-plans for your new home"?

 

[Erik S]

You gotta plan ahead.

 

[PunchySunshine]

As Dave Chappelle says, I plan it, I don't pan ic.

 

[Fama]

If you're going to complain about stupid things in the English language, well, at least you're not going to run out of things to complain. Flammable, inflammable and so on.

 

[benny_profane]

If you're going to complain about stupid things in the English language, well, at least you're not going to run out of things to complain. Flammable, inflammable and so on.

Blame Latin for that one.

 

[KR Sound]

I'm a software product/program manager. All I do is plan, plan, and plan.

Jira, Confluence, Dragon, Smartsheets, you name it.

 

[Paradox916]

“pre” plan when you want to make a plan but you are to lazy to lay it out on paper and just run with a half baked idea…. I’m the master of this concept. “ I’ll figure it out on the fly.” Because I have no attention span. There is my two cents not adjusted for inflation.

 

[finebyfine]

Feel like the addition of pre to plan originated in sensationalized crime tv/news related stuff as way to just say “very planned”

metacriticism: my own use of the word feel in this post as a way to mean “think, but don’t quote me on it” and not an actual feeling

 

[coltonius]

"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."

I avoid the mouth punch by pre-planning, then skipping over the planning phase. Right to the activity!

 

[KR Sound]

I sure didn’t plan or pre-plan this

 

[dawson]

It's probably easier to talk a guy into pre-paying if you're pre-planning?

 

[cwsquared]

I plan to continue just "planning". I have too much going on to plan to plan something.

 

[Coda]

“Plan” and “pre-plan” are synonyms when used as a verb. Plan, however, can also be a noun…

 

[jimilee]

My plans are rather vague. Lots of plans, it’s just the time that’s not scheduled.