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The legal way of saying 'I told you so' before anything actually happens.
means To observe or formally inform — the act of noting something, or the warning you give before you act on it.
from From Latin notitia, 'a being known, knowledge,' built from notus, the past participle of noscere, 'to know.' It entered English through Old French notice in the 1300s, first meaning information or intelligence about something. The modern sense of a formal warning — the kind lawyers and landlords love — grew naturally from that root idea of 'making known': once you're informed, you can't later claim you weren't.
- etymology
- From Latin notitia, meaning being known.
- legal use
- Turns silence into consent if ignored long enough.
- workplace version
- Two weeks that feel like two years.
- irony
- Often the thing everyone pretends not to take.