1. postponement and continuance are interchangable - ask a judge.
MY RESPONSE: No, idiot. There is a "legal" significant difference between the two words. You go ask a judge, you stupid piece of crap liar. You're the paralegal - - you do MY work; I don't do YOUR work. Do as you're told.
2. If an attorney (one who actually goes to court) secures a postponement, or continuance if that makes you feel better, the matter is postponed. You come back on the new date.
MY RESPONSE: No, the matter is "continued" because that's the legal terminology which is used in a courtroom - - you know, that's the big room with the bad guys that you're not allowed to go into.
If the judge, for any reason, thinks the postponement, or continuance if that makes you feel better, is not warranted, it won't be granted. If he has no problem with it, he grants it.
MY RESPONSE: Are you really that much of a dolt that you can't think beyond your nose? Judges also, typically, order "continuances" based upon "contingencies" of future events, like bringing in the necessary documetary proof, e.g., hospital paperwork - - otherwise, a person not complying can be held in contempt of court for the Failure to Appear.
That's how it works in New York courts. California . . . well, nobody understands why they do the things they do out there.
MY RESPONSE: Idiot, liar! That's how it works in New York too. But, you wouldn't know that because you're not an Officer of the Court. What a fool.
<sigh> a paralegal who works for attorneys who are actually trial attorneys getting beat up by an online attorney for whom no legal qualifications, experience or education are known . . . . . . I feel soooooooo bad.
MY RESPONSE: You have no credibility. You're just a liar.
IAAL