On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, muzzol wrote:
> and making a little video and i want to express in a
> formal/serious/powerful moments that supose great advances of the
> technology/humanity. i use a little clip with neil amstrong steping on
> the moon and i want to know which of the next words express closely
> that feeling:
>
> - watershed
> - goal
> - landmark
>
> the whole sentence is (imagine neil amstrong jumping):
>
> it's about watershed/goal/landmark
I think any of those would be okay. I'd prefer "watershed". Your example
sentence isn't correct grammer, though. One way to make it work would be
to make it more definite:
It is a watershed. It is a goal. It is a landmark.
and another would be to use a plural:
It's about watersheds. It's about goals. It's about landmarks.
It can't correctly be "about watershed" (or goal or landmark) because
those are in the grammatical category of "common nouns"; when used in the
singular they need to take "a", "an", or "the".
Seeing if I can narrow down the differences:
A watershed is a boundary between two things; when you cross it, that's a
big change.
A goal is the *end* of a process. When you reach it, something is over.
I prefer "watershed" because stepping on the moon shouldn't really be the
*end*, it's more like a beginning.
A landmark is a reference point; like a watershed it's something in the
middle of a journey, but unlike a watershed, the landmark doesn't itself
represent any particular change, it only shows that some progress has been
made.
--
Matthew Skala
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Embrace and defend.
http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/
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