"Godspeed"

[FL000]

I've refrained from saying this over the years, because whenever it's used, it's used with the best of intentions in sad and serious circumstances. However, the litany of plane crash reports the last seven days has brought the "blessing" to the forefront.

Godspeed means success or good fortune. I suppose you could argue that you are wishing them well in the afterlife, but for the context I've seen the word used, it's a little too late for "Godspeed."

 

[sonofaeagle]

Godspeed? Isn't that puttin' it to the firewall in spaceballs?

(keepin' it light)

 

[minitour]

Godspeed? Isn't that puttin' it to the firewall in spaceballs?

(keepin' it light)

"sir, hadn't you better buckle up?"

"ah buckle this! Ludicrous speed.......GO"

(keepin' it light x2)
-mini

 

[Hugh Jorgan]

I had always thought it meant "prosperous journey" and fully agree with you that it always appeared to me to be grossly misused (and overused) on this site. Kinda hard to be prosperous when you are DEAD.

I also understand it's been used with the best of intentions, but then again, all those women who signed the petition to end "woman's suffrage" on the Man Show had the best of intentions as well.

 

[2000flyer]

It also means goodbye or farewell in the polite context.

 

[FL000]

It also means goodbye or farewell in the polite context.

I just checked about 12 dictionaries and didn't find anything related to goodbye. Farewell was listed as a related word because it is indeed. Fare...well. It's probably a little too late to fare well in these instances also.

Prosperous, safe, successful journey is the definition in every reference I checked.

 

[B190Captain]

I just checked about 12 dictionaries and didn't find anything related to goodbye. Farewell was listed as a related word because it is indeed. Fare...well. It's probably a little too late to fare well in these instances also.

Prosperous, safe, successful journey is the definition in every reference I checked.

Dude you really checked 12 dictionaries on how the word Godspeed? I hope you realize what intentions that word was mentioned but to sit here and criticize how the word is used under the circumstances is truly sh*tty in my opinion.

 

[flyifrvfr]

I believe that when a person is critical of someone who says or does something that is well meaning, shows that the critic lacks ethics. The guy made a picture to memoralize the pilots of the RJ. If his heart says to use the words " godspeed " than so be it, who are you to say that what his heart feels is wrong or incorrect.

Now I will be the first to admit that sometimes I can be a real @sshole, but I won't be critical of a man speaking from his heart. I, as well as others here, like the memorial just as it is.

 

[staledog]

you must be very bored in order to care about this.

 

[FL000]

oops.

 

[FL000]

you must be very bored in order to care about this.

Extremely.

Dude you really checked 12 dictionaries on how the word Godspeed? I hope you realize what intentions that word was mentioned but to sit here and criticize how the word is used under the circumstances is truly sh*tty in my opinion.

I've refrained from saying this over the years, because whenever it's used, it's used with the best of intentions in sad and serious circumstances.

 

[FL000]

The guy made a picture to memoralize the pilots of the RJ. If his heart says to use the words " godspeed " than so be it, who are you to say that what his heart feels is wrong or incorrect.

Now I will be the first to admit that sometimes I can be a real @sshole, but I won't be critical of a man speaking from his heart. I, as well as others here, like the memorial just as it is.

I wasn't commenting specifically on his memorial avatar or even about him in particular. The word was being tossed around a lot because of recent tragedies, so I thought it was time to point out incorrect usage. For something so important as a memorial, I thought it would be equally important to have a proper word to salute the fallen. So it's not meant in disrespect to the dead. In fact, it is quite the opposite.

And when the hell did I say that what his heart feels is incorrect? I fully understood what people MEAN when they say Godspeed. I'm simply pointing out the error in the usage.

 

[flyifrvfr]

related to I just checked about 12 dictionaries and didn't find anything goodbye. Farewell was listed as a related word because it is indeed. Fare...well. It's probably a little too late to fare well in these instances also.

I refer you to the quote above. You checked 12 dictionaries to determine if the guy used the term godspeed correctly. You even went so far as to point that out in your post. I highlighted the areas that would seem to suggest that you did in fact feel that the word godspeed was incorrectly used.

 

[flyifrvfr]

I've refrained from saying this over the years, because whenever it's used, it's used with the best of intentions in sad and serious circumstances. However, the litany of plane crash reports the last seven days has brought the "blessing" to the forefront.

Godspeed means success or good fortune. I suppose you could argue that you are wishing them well in the afterlife, but for the context I've seen the word used, it's a little too late for "Godspeed."

As exibit B, I submit this entire post as proof that you question the gentlemans use of the word godspeed. Now the reason I point this out is because the memorial was made with words from his heart. I care and that is all that needs to be said. Good day, I said god day.

 

[Stifler's Mom]

Godspeed? Isn't that puttin' it to the firewall in spaceballs?

(keepin' it light)

Ludicrous Speed

 

[dseagrav]

Humpty Dumpty took the book and looked at it carefully. `That seems to be done right --' he began.

`You're holding it upside down!' Alice interrupted.

`To be sure I was!' Humpty Dumpty said gaily as she turned it round for him. `I thought it looked a little queer. As I was saying, that seems to be done right -- though I haven't time to look it over thoroughly just now -- and that shows that there are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents --'

`Certainly,' said Alice.

`And only one for birthday presents, you know. There's glory for you!'

`I don't know what you mean by "glory",' Alice said.

Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. `Of course you don't -- till I tell you. I meant "there's a nice knock-down argument for you!"'

`But "glory" doesn't mean "a nice knock-down argument",' Alice objected.

`When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'

`The question is,' said Alice, `whether you can make words mean so many different things.'

`The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, `which is to be master -- that's all.'

-- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass