Pedancy

[Tynan]

I'e been told repeatedly that I'm prone to this but I've just heard a fella on the Coast series say with relish and emphasis

'I have a date with destiny'

It's meaningless surely? Everyone's destiny, by definition, is set, everyone has a series of dates with it?

Does anyone know how to speak English any more, I so enjoy reading older books and reading a much clearer and better constructed English

A pox on modern people and their attempts to speak

Tynan is 51

 

[winjim]

*Pedantry

 

[MacB]

Only 51 you are very advanced master Jedi

 

[biggs682]

'I have a date with destiny'

Has she got a sister called Crystal ??

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

*Pedantry

 

[classic33]

Has she got a sister called Crystal ??

Symphony surely!

 

[Levo-Lon]

Looks like a can of Carling in your Av...nuf said

 

[MikeG]

I'e been told repeatedly that I'm prone to this but I've just heard a fella on the Coast series say with relish and emphasis

'I have a date with destiny'

It's meaningless surely? Everyone's destiny, by definition, is set,?

Are you suggesting that everything in everyone's life is pre-ordained? That we are in fact little more than automatons, marching to someone else's tune? I don't see any evidence for this notion.

Does anyone know how to speak English any more, I so enjoy reading older books and reading a much clearer and better constructed English

A pox on modern people and their attempts to speak

Tynan is 51

Your first sentence should be two, with a question mark after 'more', and a full stop after 'English'. There should also be a full stop after 'speak'. Maybe as you contemplate the quality of the English in those older books you might absorb some of their lessons on grammar.

Just a bit of fun, because winjim got in first with "pedantry"......

 

[smutchin]

*Pedantry

*Pendandtry

 

[classic33]

Are you suggesting that everything in everyone's life is pre-ordained? That we are in fact little more than automatons, marching to someone else's tune? I don't see any evidence for this notion.




Your first sentence should be two, with a question mark after 'more', and a full stop after 'English'. There should also be a full stop after 'speak'. Maybe as you contemplate the quality of the English in those older books you might absorb some of their lessons on grammar.

Just a bit of fun, because winjim got in first with "pedantry"......

Ever thought it might just be nothing more than a computer simulation?

It might explain why you can't see any evidence. They don't want you to see it.

 

[Tynan]

I'm not suggesting anything other than the meaning of Destiny means, well, that everything is pre-destined. It was the fella's choice of phrase not mine.

the gramma, speling and punktuation police can feck off, i'm on a laptop in a very easy chair with my leg propped up, i'm allowed to type shoot

 

[rich p]

Only 51 you are very advanced master Jedi

Wotcha mate

 

[Tin Pot]

I'e been told repeatedly that I'm prone to this but I've just heard a fella on the Coast series say with relish and emphasis

'I have a date with destiny'

It's meaningless surely? Everyone's destiny, by definition, is set, everyone has a series of dates with it?

Does anyone know how to speak English any more, I so enjoy reading older books and reading a much clearer and better constructed English

A pox on modern people and their attempts to speak

Tynan is 51

Oh the irony.

Nice thread.

 

[jefmcg]

'I have a date with destiny'

We all may have dates with destiny, but only some of us are aware of it.

Hmm, is it a modern phrase? Let's ask google.

Well, 20th century, but older than @Tynan. It first came into usage in 1933, the year that Hitler became chancellor of Germany. I don't think that is a coincidence. It stayed popular in the years after the war, but usage reached a nadir about the same time that @Tynan reached manhood. It's obviously had a revival, which I hadn't noticed.

When I go down to the shops, and a car knocks me down, my relatives might say I had a date with destiny. I wasn't aware of it. However, if I was navigating a bomber over Berlin, I might feel the hand of fate upon me, as might the people of Berlin hearing the engines.

I didn't watch Coast, so have no idea if the usage makes sense or not. I doubt he was facing down death.

 

[pplpilot]

I believe the youth would say you have been well and truly pwnd or owned...