Talk:Inon Zur

It's immigrated to the US. You immigrate to places, you emigrate from places. —Preceding comment was unsigned. Please sign your posts with ~ !
 * Not really. You emigrate from places to other places. See here. -- Porter21 (talk) 17:43, February 17, 2010 (UTC)

Yes but the sentence is not "emigrated from Israel to the U.S." its just "emigrated to the US" which is not correct
 * The sentence is implying he's leaving somewhere for the US. Nitty Tok. 17:49, February 17, 2010 (UTC)

That doesn't affect it, this is the whole reason for the existance of the two sepaparte words. Even in the dictionary example Porter posted it shows "emigrate" with "from". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.221.71.235 (talk • contribs). Please sign your posts with ~ !
 * Because you have to leave a place to get to the US. Nitty Tok. 17:56, February 17, 2010 (UTC)

Yes but to immigrate anywhere you have to have left somewhere. The word immigration always implies emigration. Looking at the latin prefixes, emmigrate literally means migrate out and immigrate means migrate in. It doesn't make sense to say someone migrated out to the US, so it doesnt make sense to say that they emigrated to the US either. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.221.71.235 (talk • contribs). Please sign your posts with ~ !
 * Your argument would be more valid if the article didn't describe his birth and life in Israel just prior to stating that he emigrated. In the context, it is entirely correct. From where someone emigrates is also not a compulsory part of the word's usage - unless you want to tell me that "I live in country X. I'd like to emigrate to another country." would be incorrect, which it certainly isn't. -- Porter21 (talk) 18:15, February 17, 2010 (UTC)