called a "near miss"? Shouldn't it be called a "near hit"?
2006-07-12 02:55:30 · 12 answers · asked by Rolando MacTavish III 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
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2006-07-12 03:05:18 · update #1
I'm really sick of these lame a$$ long motherfreakin answers. It took me 2 days to scroll to the bottom of the flippin page. Sheesh.
2006-07-12 15:07:30 · answer #1 · answered by Melissa C 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋
There is no egg in eggplant or ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins were not invented in England nor french fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies, while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write, but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So, one moose, 2 meese? One index, two indices? Is cheese the plural of choose? If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? =20
In what language do people recite at a play, and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on driveways and drive on parkways? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another? When a house burns up, it burns down. You fill in a form by filling it out and an alarm clock goes off by going on. When the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it? Now I know why I flunked English. It's not my fault-the silly language doesn't quite know whether it's coming or going.
2006-07-12 10:02:33 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just one of the oddities of the English language.
They got close to each other: Near
They did not hit each other: Miss
BTW, the above bit is cute, but was plagarized. The author, Prof. H. L. Chace was a professor of French and wrote these in 1940 to to demonstrate that intonation of spoken English is almost as important to the meaning as the words themselves.
2006-07-12 11:30:53 · answer #3 · answered by Bostonian In MO 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anyway If flights are hit then it's a Hit.
Since they missed the hit , we may call it as near miss.
2006-07-12 10:02:32 · answer #4 · answered by sree143 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they missed, but were near to each other. It refers to the fact that they were too close to each other (near) in reference to the acceptable distance between planes, and that they did not collide.(miss)
2006-07-12 10:02:27 · answer #5 · answered by fire4511 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they planes were NEAR each other when they MISSED each other.
It's kind of like the phrase "close encounter".
You're confusing the word "near" with the word "nearly".
2006-07-12 10:00:04 · answer #6 · answered by casey_leftwich 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do we park in a driveway and drive on a parkway???
Maybe it is an abbreviation for a near mishap???
2006-07-12 10:00:09 · answer #7 · answered by mailbox1024 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's kind of like how "fat chance" and "slim chance" actually mean the same thing - almost no chance!
Shouldn't a "fat chance" mean a really good chance?
2006-07-12 09:59:38 · answer #8 · answered by innocence faded 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-07-12 10:00:12 · answer #9 · answered by thematrixhazu36 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wonder the same thing myself
2006-07-12 09:58:19 · answer #10 · answered by nas88car300 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋