On Sun, 2019-06-23 at 18:36 +0800, Ed Greshko 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.
I would have said "I understood it already...." or "I realized it
already....", or even
"I knew it already...".
*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. :-)
Forbode can only be used about something else, not oneself: "a dark
cloud forbodes a tornado" is correct, but a "I forbode wrath" is not
(except when forbode is the past tense of forbid -- not the usage
here). "Forbode" is truly obselete. See:
https://www.yourdictionary.com/forbode
On the other hand "foresaw" sounds quite natural to me; but I was born
in 1940 (8-).