“Dediction”

Speaking about the future: ‘pro-vocation’ and ‘ante-diction’

“…Recently in these pages, Kirk Junker [10,11] has been examining the way that our use of words and language influences our conceptions of futures. He has coined [12] the new term 'dediction', the derivation of which arose from the mechanical concatenation of certain Latinate temporal prefixes and word roots denoting different activities, such as writing and speaking. It was offered as a way of calling attention to several observations about our use of language, as well as examining many subtle meanings of the words which can be formed in this way, including various normative undertones.…”