poemranker ::Replying

ReplyTo a comment on A Better God by Dovina.

Goad24 Jan 2005

ahem, aversion to "thing" considered illfounded?!? You've forgotten our battle of limericks over the word, then, have you?

I'm not sure it's an actual error to use discover as a synonym for the sense of find that means "come to feel", but it certainly is jarring, and by using it so you risk making those readers who possess a finely developed literary sensitivity wince.
I did.
And since I was reading during my morning enstooling, it caused me in fact to inadvertently pinch off a log quite before I was ready to do so. The delicate mopping away of the resulting splashings necessitated my full attention, hence I was unable to complete my perusal of the pome. These are the risks one takes with one's audience when one neglects to adequately ponder proper usage!

English 201:

if you intended "discover" as a synonym for the sense of find that means "come to feel" then:

"My creatures will discover that all I've made
seems quite pleasing and right to their finite minds"

was what you were looking for.

If you intended discover as a synonym for the sense of find that means "judge", the only d-word I'm aware of is "deem":

My creatures will deem all I've made
quite pleasing and right in their finite minds.