Quote Originally Posted by World's End Stella View Post
Isn't it a question of timing? If I prepared a meal for you, I made it myself. If I pre-prepared it, I did so in such a way that it required virtually no preparation once you had arrived. Seems logical to me.

Then again, I failed every grammar test I ever wrote. Boys did math, girls did grammar. Twas ever thus.
No. What you've described there is 'preparation'. It's all 'preparation'. The fact that some aspects of it took place before others does not alter the fact or make the term 'pre-preparation' any less tautological.