Oh hell yes. Luck? Really huge bloody luck that the one pilot that used to fly glider freight planes was the one to loose both turbines (a very unlikely scenario)? Yes. Miracle? Were I the pilot, I would see that as an insult. My hat is off to the man.
that pilot is one bad ass dude. i was looking at his resume yesterday. blue force leader @ red flag, safety consultant for nasa, led the redesign of airport signage, bad ass dude!
I think there's a point there, but this is just one of a few words where I just get rigidly proscriptive. "Miracle" describes something so specific and special that its meaning gets diluted when you apply it to everything that is amazing. We have words like, well, "amazing" already which do a fine job. Leave "miracle" alone to do its job - describing events that are truly beyond our understanding.
As an aside, I want to start using "miracle" to describe horrible events as well. Look at the Bible - just because it's a miracle doesn't mean it's good....
"Unique" is another one get gets under my fingernails. It doesn't mean "special" or "interesting." We already have "special" and "interesting" and they do their jobs very well. Don't dilute the meaning of a very specific word like that....
I know the modern way is to be all descriptive and hippie and says, "Yeah, man, words mean whatever we want them to mean," but I'm a cranky old man at heart sometimes. *smile*
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Luck? Really huge bloody luck that the one pilot that used to fly glider freight planes was the one to loose both turbines (a very unlikely scenario)? Yes.
Miracle? Were I the pilot, I would see that as an insult. My hat is off to the man.
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As an aside, I want to start using "miracle" to describe horrible events as well. Look at the Bible - just because it's a miracle doesn't mean it's good....
"Unique" is another one get gets under my fingernails. It doesn't mean "special" or "interesting." We already have "special" and "interesting" and they do their jobs very well. Don't dilute the meaning of a very specific word like that....
I know the modern way is to be all descriptive and hippie and says, "Yeah, man, words mean whatever we want them to mean," but I'm a cranky old man at heart sometimes. *smile*
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