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   Hi, Alexander!  Recently you wrote in a message to All:   
      
   AK>  In English, if an American has flown to Moon --   
   AK>  does it mean he has been there? For instance, Apollo   
   AK>  13 was on its way to the Moon, but it had not been   
   AK>  on the Moon. Or we should make the information more   
   AK>  exact and say "he has been on the Moon". Is "on the   
   AK>  Moon" legal?   
      
      
             I don't know of any jurisdiction where... as Henry Higgins put it...   
   "the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue" is an indictable offence.  You   
   could say "acceptable" or "permissible" in a question like this, however.  :-Q   
      
             If Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon in 1989 I see no problem with   
   saying Apollo 11 went to the moon or that he has been there.  If... as someone   
   in another echo claims... the incident was filmed in a Hollywood movie studio,   
   I'd say this person allegedly walked on the moon.   
      
             I imagine you've also read news reports about an aeroplane which was   
   en route to SomePlace Else when it crash-landed in the ocean.  I gather Apollo   
   13 was on its way to the moon, but never actually arrived on the moon....  :-)   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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