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kevinrineeryesterday at 4:36 PM1 replyview on HN

> ... as a synonym for "incident report"

People should stop using it as a synonym, then. The Latin effectively means "after death", meaning its a poor synonym for "what happened wrong recently".


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hiccup_socksyesterday at 4:40 PM

>The Latin effectively means "after death"

language evolves over time

post mortem is even in dictionaries (meriam, oxford, american heritage) as "an analysis or review of a finished event"

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