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At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: MDV on August 25, 2012, 11:21:27 PM
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$%&#ing legend. Literally.
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Legend... And no more. It was faked by the American-Russian Embassy on mars to raise nuclear funds.
I'm kidding :) Even I don't understand what I just said there... But do conspiracy theorists ever understand themselves...?
Anyway, in all seriousness, it's a real shame. He is such a legend and an amazing person. When I was a kid I used to look up to him all the time. I wanted to be an astronaut when I grew up until I was like 9 or 10 and I'd play with all of these astronaut action figures... :)
RIP Niel Armstrong... We've lost a real legend.
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Indeed.
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Quite a shame. RIP
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:( RIP
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I remember seeing the landings as a boy and was enthralled. Sad news.
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My earliest childhood memory is of my mum taking me into the back garden, pointing up at the moon in the evening sky and saying "there's men up there right now".
I certainly didn't understand what was going on at the time, it made a very strong impression on me that someone would say something so strange. The exploration of space has been a lifelong fascination for me, especially the early astronauts and cosmonauts like Armstrong, Aldrin, Alexei Leonov and Vladimir Komarov whose bravery in embarking on often hazardous and untested missions was undoubtedly the greatest human achievement.
I don't think we'll see a manned mission to Mars in my lifetime. We have a long wait before the world sees anything to match what Neil Armstrong did in 1969.
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RIP. King among mere men.
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My earliest childhood memory is of my mum taking me into the back garden, pointing up at the moon in the evening sky and saying "there's men up there right now".
Thats great :)
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Neil Armstrong is a paragon of human endeavour.
He is no legend.
The label legend literally does his achievement a great injustice and this is one of the few times I will get the arse about this poor use of english. He deserves better.
The word legend literally infers that what he did was a myth or cannot be proved.
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*sighs*
I'm not going to argue with you. And if you had the respect you claim for Armstrongs achievements, you wouldnt be 'getting the arse' about semantics.
I say again: RIP Neil Armstrong. $%&#ing. Legend.
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It was only because you said 'literally'. King Arthur was a $%&#ing legend. Literally. Its not semantics when you have idiot conspiracy theorists who say it was all faked.
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If you want a debate on the possible and viable contextual interpretations of 'legend' and 'literally', then start another thread. Seriously. We will literally argue till one of us dies. It will be legendary.
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The hell did modular go? Was it something I said (I was being tongue in cheek...)
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Neil Armstrong is a paragon of human endeavour.
He is no legend.
The label legend literally does his achievement a great injustice and this is one of the few times I will get the arse about this poor use of english. He deserves better.
The word legend literally infers that what he did was a myth or cannot be proved.
you should watch 'I am Legend'....recon you'd enjoy that!
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Neil Armstrong is a paragon of human endeavour.
He is no legend.
The label legend literally does his achievement a great injustice and this is one of the few times I will get the arse about this poor use of english. He deserves better.
The word legend literally infers that what he did was a myth or cannot be proved.
If one is going to take the hump about the poor use of English. They'd do well to know the difference between 'imply' and 'infer'. Be embarrassed.
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Neil Armstrong is a paragon of human endeavour.
He is no legend.
The label legend literally does his achievement a great injustice and this is one of the few times I will get the arse about this poor use of english. He deserves better.
The word legend literally infers that what he did was a myth or cannot be proved.
If one is going to take the hump about the poor use of English. They'd do well to know the difference between 'imply' and 'infer'. Be embarrassed.
Should you have a full stop between "English" and "They'd"? Not that my grasp of the English language is that hot!
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:lol:
No, I should not.
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Are you boys fighting again? Leave a thread for a couple of days and look what happens.... :P
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:lol:
No, I should not.
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be embarrassed, mate! :D
Philly, I don't start fights... I end them...
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Actually, the full-stop isn't the error that got me... it was the "one" (singular) and the "they" (plural) not corresponding to each other :lol:
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They acts as a singular in instances of indeterminate gender or number ;)
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They acts as a singular in instances of indeterminate gender or number ;)
:lol: yeah, I'm with you... but it's quite hard to argue that "one" is an indeterminate number, even in this example... I see exactly what you mean, though.
But don't worry too much about what I say - it's just the part that made me go "oooh" and reread the sentence.
And that's only really because I write instructions and help files for a living, and it's one of the (many) things to watch out for in that kind of material: you must match these things across clauses or sentences where clarity and meaning is paramount. If the initial word used for the subject determines gender or number, the next one must agree if it's referring to the same subject, otherwise you'll trip up some readers, especially those for whom English is not a native language. In this case, because "one" is singular, some readers will instinctively regard "they" as a new subject until they reread the sentence several times.
It don't matter a bugger in this case, though - we all knew what you meant (even with the full-stop there!) :lol:
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Why has this thread turned into an English lesson? :)
I don't want to go back to school! :(