SarcasticDwarf
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I am roughly familiar with what happened. The question is not about the greatest potential for disaster, but about the actual disaster...and with TMI there was essentially nothing. Furthermore, most of the "hype" today about it is based on misinformation (mainly that there was a large disaster).
Captante
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Never happened implies that the chance of it ever happening was greatly exaggerated beforehand is now zero, so the Y2K scare is somthing this applies to.
Mutually assured destruction via the USSR & USA both launching massive nuclear strikes at the same time & wiping out virtually all human life on earth was not only a very real possibility in the 1970's & 1980's, unknown to many it continues to be a risk to this day.
Mutually assured destruction via the USSR & USA both launching massive nuclear strikes at the same time & wiping out virtually all human life on earth was not only a very real possibility in the 1970's & 1980's, unknown to many it continues to be a risk to this day.
Huh?
1. Stop revlealing your age by using the overused forum kiddie "!=" stuff.
2. Hasn't happened yet DOES EQUAL Never happened. If it hasn't happened yet, it has never happened. What's so hard to understand about this?
It has become forum kiddie speak. Most of them can't program a microwave let alone a computer.
Let me guess, you're 16-22?
My god you're idiotic.
He said "never happened. It denotes the past. While the word "never" can be used to refer to the past or future, the other supporting words define the timeframe. The word "happened" is past tense and refers to the past.
You even copied/pasted the examples they gave which show how the word can be used, yet you didn't read what you posted.
Do they even teach basic grammar in schools anymore or is everyone just too damn stupid to understand?
If you replace the word, "never," with the definition, you'll see that, "hasn't happened," and, "at no time in the past or future happened," are not the same.
Ho-ly shit you're dense.
Where the hell are you getting the idea about the future? Who said anything about the future? In the context that this word was used- "never happened"- it can ONLY mean the past.
The only use of it was "never happened", and you cannot even attempt to suggest that this also means the future.
It's obvious that you're confused by the definition and usage of this word. Please go back to school learn basic grammar.
While the word "never" itself can be used to refer to the past or present, the rest of the sentence has to agree with it. If I want to use it to mean the future, I can say, "This will never happen." If I want to use it to refer to the past, I can say, "This has never happened."
My second example is the only one that applies to this thread, since that exact wording was used in the title. Why don't you just be a man and admit that you tried to be a wiseass and looked up the definition of "never" without considering the importance of context?
A literalist, are we? Language means so much more than your narrow definitions. Clearly you never advanced beyond basic grammar.
Any sensible person knows that the phrasing of the OP:
Implies a disaster that was predicted, hyped up like crazy, and after the disaster period was over it turns out not to have happened. The OP isn't interested in things that occur on an indefinite timeline, like the chances of the sun suddenly going supernova with no warning.
Y2K was a good example. It had a very exact "disaster date". In 1999 you could NOT say that Y2k "never happened", because the danger period hadn't come yet. Technically it hadn't happened yet, but there was no guarantee that it wouldn't happen on Jan 1, 2000. There's a difference between "hasn't" and "never" happened.
Similarly, if someone claims that a specific comet is going to hit earth and kill us all, you can't say that it "never" happened until the comet has passed us by, or we know enough to prove that it won't strike earth. However, if someone claims that someday an unknown comet is going to hit earth and kill us all, you can NEVER claim that this "never happened", only that it hasn't happened yet.
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