Hi, Ardith Hinton! -> Alexander Koryagin
I read your message from 12.10.2020 13:31

 AK>> In English, if an American has flown to Moon -- does it mean he
 AK>> has been there? For instance, Apollo 13 was on its way to the
 AK>> Moon, but it had not been on the Moon. Or we should make the
 AK>> information more exact and say "he has been on the Moon". Is "on
 AK>> the Moon" legal?

 AH> I don't know of any jurisdiction where... as Henry Higgins put
 AH> it... "the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue" is an
 AH> indictable offence. You could say "acceptable" or "permissible" in
 AH> a question like this, however.: - Q

 AH> If Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon in 1989 I see no problem
 AH> with saying Apollo 11 went to the moon or that he has been there.
 AH> If... as someone in another echo claims... the incident was filmed
 AH> in a Hollywood movie studio, I'd say this person allegedly walked
 AH> on the moon.

 AH> I imagine you've also read news reports about an aeroplane which
 AH> was en route to SomePlace Else when it crash-landed in the ocean. I
 AH> gather Apollo 13 was on its way to the moon, but never actually
 AH> arrived on the moon....

If an American can say that he is on a train, surely he can say he
is/was on the Moon. ;)


Bye, Ardith!
Alexander Koryagin
english_tutor 2020

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