[groovy2shoes]

> I'm curious about why the filename for the PDF is "Pretend-Paper.pdf"?

I've googled the paper and the authors, and I've scoured the UTexas Law site, and turned up nothing. So, my best guess: perhaps it's wordplay: pretend < Latin pre- "before" + tendo "I stretch out; I reach for; I pitch; I offer" vs. foregive (now a homophone of forgive but originally having a slightly different meaning[1]). Thus "pretend paper" ≡ "foregive paper" ~ "forgive paper". It's a stretch, but it's all I can come up with...

[1]: fore- having a sense of "forward; before" whereas for-, being related to the "fro" in "to and fro", originally having a since of "away from". Now that "for" and "fore" are homophones, the two are conflated, but not for the first time in history: there were once three prefixes, which would've been fore-, for-, and fro- today had the latter two not already merged before the Anglo-Saxons even began writing. They corresponded to Latin pre-, per-, and pro-, respectively. Now there's one prefix, variously spelled, with various senses, however sometimes the senses are distinguished in writing by one spelling or another.