Pedancy

[winjim]

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

I think that a date with destiny is a well enough known figure of speech. Destiny itself implies something rather serious, so having a date with destiny means going to do something momentous at which you will either fail miserably or succeed bigly.

You knew there was only ever one way this thread was going to go, didn't you?

 

[Crackle]

I quite like a nice pendant

 

[jefmcg]

I quite like a nice pendant

Yup, Opal, in a simple setting. Very retro 70s.

 

[smutchin]

I think that a date with destiny is a well enough known figure of speech.

So is 'hoist by his own petard'.

 

[swansonj]

Every time someone bemoans a non-literal use of English words, I recite a poem to myself and feel glad to be party to the richness of the English language and sorry for them.

 

[Tynan]

you don't have to be aware of a date with destiny to have one

and destiny doesn't have to be a final event, it can be a continuum

some of you are simply not being pedantic enough

 

[S-Express]

*Pedantry

Pedanticnessism

 

[Deleted member 1258]

What about deja vu, is that spelling right? how many experience this? That feeling that I've been here before, or I've done this before. Surly this and destiny are related.

 

[Dayvo]

What about deja view, is that spelling right? how many experience this? That feeling that I've been here before, or I've done this before. Surly this and destiny are related.

Something you've seen before?

C'est déjà vu meaning, as you said, already seen.

I used to have a lot of déjà vus, but haven't had one for years: should have seen that coming, really.

 

[Tynan]

Seeing something coming = prescience or precognition

After that bold opening, a very weak finish

 

[MacB]

Wotcha mate

How do Man Mountain

 

[Drago]

Has he mentioned pronunciation yet?

 

[rich p]

How do Man Mountain

Did you mean, "How do Man Mounting?"

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Something you've seen before?

C'est déjà vu meaning, as you said, already seen.

I used to have a lot of déjà vus, but haven't had one for years: should have seen that coming, really.

Yes I get a lot of déjà vu and always have done.

 

[Drago]

Pedanticnessism

Pedanticnessismistry , actually