On 23Jun2019 18:36, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko(a)greshko.com> wrote:
On 6/23/19 5:54 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sat, 2019-06-22 at 19:37 +0000, sixpack13 wrote:
>> I forebode (right word/spelt ?) it already that the combination of
>> user rights and expansion was my bug, but didn't know how to fix.
> You probably mean "foresaw". "Forebode" is technically correct
but that
> usage is uncommon. It normally means to have a premonition (i.e. a
> "foreboding").
And I would use none of those terms.
Surely "neither", not "none". Though like "forebode",
"none" is
technically correct as well.
I would have said "I understood it already...." or "I
realized it already....", or even
"I knew it already...".
But did the OP know? Or did xe just feel that oncoming?
*My* reason is that I find "forebode" and
"foresaw" as anachronistic in conversational
English. I can't recall a time that I have used those words. I can only recall
seeing
them in literary works of previous generations. :-)
That is a self fulfilling prophesy. Quite forbidding in its outlook.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs(a)cskk.id.au>