Quote Originally Posted by Niwashi View Post
First off, "portends" isn't particularly uncommon. More significantly "-eth" isn't a suffix you can just tack on or remove arbitrarily. It has to match the tense of the rest of the sentence. Their only options were (1) include it as they did, (2) remove all traces of early modern English from the dialog, or (3) leave it as grammatically wrong. You can't change a sentence piecemeal and still have a valid sentence.

Bloometh perhaps, but Urianger wouldn't use goeth because it doesn't match the pronoun "I". (I go. Thou goest. He/she/it goeth.)
Yeah, I was thinking about the fact that SE wouldn't be able to just change Urianger's method of speaking without some drastic change like Moenbryda telling him to knock off the act or something. >< I guess it's more a hope for the future.

Now I'm curious though... how often does the word "portend" show up in modern media? I would bet you'd be hard pressed to find it in any of today's newspapers and newscasts. :/

And thanks for the grammar correction! xD My bad about adding -eth to 'go'.