Are there any coincidences in this American life?
An engaged coupled discovered their parents almost married one another. As told in an episode of NPR’s This American Life, titled “No Coincidence, No Story,” Stephen and Helen Lee had just gotten engaged when they made a shocking family discovery.
Do you get a chance to look into this?
Asking “Have you got a chance to look into this?” would imply that “looking into this” is something that one is unlikely to do with out a lot of luck. “Did you get a chance to X?” ask if the person has had time to do X. E.g. “Did you get a chance to go to the shop?”
Why are coincidences happen and what they mean?
They’re like dreams—mine is more interesting than yours. “A coincidence itself is in the eye of the beholder,” says David Spiegelhalter, the Winton professor for the public understanding of risk at the University of Cambridge. If a rare event happens in a forest and no one notices and no one cares, it’s not really a coincidence.
Which is better Have you Got a chance to or Did you get a chance?
“Have you had a chance to look at it?” which are basically equivalent in meaning. For the present tense example in which you are asking the second person whether they have time to look at the document now, or in the near future, better to use the simpler: “Do you have time to look at this?”
Asking “Have you got a chance to look into this?” would imply that “looking into this” is something that one is unlikely to do with out a lot of luck. “Did you get a chance to X?” ask if the person has had time to do X. E.g. “Did you get a chance to go to the shop?”
Is there such a thing as a coincidence?
“A coincidence itself is in the eye of the beholder,” says David Spiegelhalter, the Winton professor for the public understanding of risk at the University of Cambridge. If a rare event happens in a forest and no one notices and no one cares, it’s not really a coincidence. I told Spiegelhalter my Cedar Point story on the phone—I couldn’t help it.
“Have you had a chance to look at it?” which are basically equivalent in meaning. For the present tense example in which you are asking the second person whether they have time to look at the document now, or in the near future, better to use the simpler: “Do you have time to look at this?”
What does the exclamation ” what a coincidence ” mean?
As in, events that trigger the exclamation “What a coincidence!” or “What are the chances?” Usually, such coincidences seem to have some kind of inherent meaning – even if we don’t know what it is at the time. They make us scratch our heads and wonder, “Hmmm…”