Let's juxtapose them and see:
Von Moltke:
"No battle plan survives contact with the enemy."
Tyson:
"Everybody has a plan until you get hit in the face."
Pretty much the same meaning, and Von Moltke's quote is three words shorter, so no, Tyson's quote is not simpler.
Also, Tyson was ungrammatical, IMO:
"Everybody" vs. "you" in the same sentence, referring to the same entity.
Grammar experts, correct me if I am wrong.
I was just being a little pedantic for fun. I don't do that often.
So peace and order was not even disturbed, at least for me.
Enjoy.
I googled it and at least the top few links don't seem relevant.
My question was in reply to the comment above by sbuk, excerpted below:
>It was midnight and a few beers after celebrating a birthday. I'm sorry I offended your grammatical sensibilities. But you really did go full orange site there, didn't you!
> Also, Tyson was ungrammatical, IMO:
> "Everybody" vs. "you" in the same sentence, referring to the same entity.
Seems perfectly understandable to English speakers. (And that's pretty close to how English grammar is defined by descriptive linguists.)
Have a look at http://fine.me.uk/Emonds/ for an exploration of these kinds of concepts.
"Everybody" seems to be in the third person and "you" is in the second person, so I thought it was a mismatch (since in the same sentence, etc.), and so was ungrammatical.
Let anyone tell me if I am wrong, would like to know.
And see my reply to sbuk, it was just in fun.
The mechanical rules are just an imperfect attempt at capturing parts of the richness of real world language, or more precisely: language variants of different dialects and speakers.
Of course, there's a whole world of class markers overlaid here as well. If you want to sound middle-class educated in most of the English speaking world, you have to avoid "ain't" and say things like "It is I" or "Bob and I went shopping.", instead of the more natural "It's me!" or "Bob and me went shopping." That's what Emond calls 'Grammatically Deviant Prestige Constructions'. The whole point is that they aren't part of a naturally learnable variant of English, so they can only be acquired by schooling.
Most people who speak prestige-English over-generalise, and also say things like "She likes Bob and I.".
See fine.me.uk/Emonds/ for details.
Nope. Not important to me.
