IF YOU WANNA LEARN A RANDOM ENGLISH TERM HERE YOU FUCKING GO

1. Post HOC Fallacy
By Shelby Hurd

2. What in the World Does That Mean?
• Latin Translation: post hoc ergo propter hoc
• English Translation: after this, therefore because
of this
• English Class Translation: A occurs before B,
therefore A is the cause of B

3. American Translation
•You mistakenly think that
just because one event
happens after another that
the first event causes the
second event

4. Texan Translation
• Y’all accidentally had thinked
that ‘cause one thang happen
the first thang made the
second thang happen

5. Okay that’s cool, but who cares?
• Well it’s the basis of most cool superstitions and
rituals (aka rain dances)
• Without it we pretty much wouldn’t have science

6. How the Rain Dance Changed Lives
A Cabbage dude was tired of
the effect the 100 year
drought had on his cabbage
Wanted to feed 17 year old
wife and eight children
because annoying duh

7. One day he decides to spontaneously
perform elaborate fabulous dance for
his stupid village

8. •Three weeks later it drizzles
•The cabbages slightly perk up

9. REJOICE

10. THEIR CONCLUSION
• Finally the stupid village has realized that
to bestow rain upon their land they must
perform fabulous dances for the gods’
pleasure
• No more waiting for pesky droughts to
end
•What a time to be alive

11. Source
• Post Hoc. The Nizkor Project, 2002. Web. 14
Oct. 2012.
<http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallaci
es/post-hoc.html>.