0 very foolish; ridiculous -- karut
a preposterous idea.
The authors are committed to the inclusive aspirations of the site but also mindful of the avoidance of making preposterous claims for electroacoustic music and electroacoustic music studies.
The very word 'triphthong' sounds faintly preposterous, as if somebody has dared a coinage with 'diphthong' and wants to have some further fun.
As an empirical matter, however, this equation is often preposterous.
I suspect many would reject such a proposal as preposterous not merely because of the flaws in its factual premises.
This is surely arrogance on a pretty preposterous scale.
This is preposterous, since the presumption is patently not evidence but an assumption.
This thought experiment merely indicates the scale of the problem (this type of replacement is, of course, preposterous!).
Adherents of the standard cognitive science model find this preposterous: for them, perception is always a matter of indirect inference.
