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ManInSpace
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From: Brooklin, Ontario Canada
Registered: Feb 2018

posted 07-26-2018 05:46 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Blackarrow:
I know from personal experience...

Bingo! I too have always assumed that in the UK, the correct phrase was "to hospital."

You however, have provided first person testimony that other wording is used and I accept what you say.

Why then sir, can you not extend the same courtesy to the first person testimonials that we have provided you?

Blackarrow
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From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002

posted 07-26-2018 06:10 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Robert Pearlman:
It is one thing to debate the validity of the terms, but to selectively ignore evidence is a sign that this discussion is without meaningful purpose.

Well, yes, you're obviously right that it "wasn't an issue until it became an issue and therefore has become more noticeable." (The point was always: what made it more noticeable?)

I haven't dismissed all of your (and other) citations as typos. Please re-read my post of 24th July. Neither do I seek to invalidate the experiences of others, although Oly has pointed out that "memories fade." True, and we sometimes mis-remember things in the past, but those arguments could apply to us all, so let's not go there.

As for "selectively ignoring evidence," I think that charge could be laid against quite a few participants in this debate, but the bottom line is that I can obviously only access my own memory, and it remains the case that I only became aware of those two expressions in the relatively recent past. If it would be wrong of me to challenge the memories of others (and in reply to the above post, yes it would be), then it is certainly wrong of others to challenge my memories.

Perhaps it is, after all, just a case of "two countries separated by a common language" but I can't help wondering whether "to space" was an expression used by Walter Cronkite during the Apollo days. I doubt it, but I'm not challenging some poor soul to wade through months of Cronkite recordings. I think by now we've all got better things to do.

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