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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....  :-)




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