Yeah. "Ex Ante" Is Just Latin For; "Before The Event."

While; "Ex Post" is Latin for; "After The Event."

Once you've Googled that.

It's just a much faster way of writing either term. In a world that's hardly suffering from a shortage of words.

Besides.

It has a funny way of making even the most childish of ideas suddenly sound so much more superior.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcaallbO8Lw (Lo De'sospiri, Tosca, Puccini, 2, Audio, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scalla).