“Expectation”

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.…”

“…Suppose we also choose 'thinking' (cognit-) and 'looking' (spect-), which latter Junker [11] has examined in a different way. I am certainly not trying to be rigorous about the grammatical provenance of these word roots, merely indicative of the ideas they represent.…”