10 flagrant grammar mistakes that make you look stupid

[Pat McCotter]

Well, what about "evacuate"? Is a building evacuated of people or are people evacuated from a building?

[Lex]

Well, what about "evacuate"? Is a building evacuated of people or are people evacuated from a building?

people are evacuated from a building

[Lloyd Danforth]

I'm going with Lex on all things Grammatical.  He probably learned it after us, probably as an adult and paid attention....and ........still has his books.

[Lex]

I'm going with Lex on all things Grammatical.  He probably learned it after us, probably as an adult and paid attention....and ........still has his books.

LOL! 

I don't have any books, I just google everything :-)

But I went to public school and did fail english two years in a row...

[Pat McCotter]

Scientifically speaking, one evacuates a jar to create a vacuum in it. That tells me that "evacuate" means "to empty". So understanding this use I get a very weird picture in my head when I hear a news story saying "200 people were evacuated in Denver today."

[cathleeninnh]

Now, they are just drifting around empty?

Cathleen

[Pat McCotter]

No, I'm picturing the process of emptying not the result of being emptied.

[Lloyd Danforth]

My mother's complaint was how come you can say drink, drank, drunk, but, not think, thank, thunk.

[Kat Kanning]

Thank you.

[Lex]

We should just start our own language! One that's actually consistent and makes sense!

Would be nice to use english as a basis but it's kinda hard to work with in the sense that it's so unstructured, it'd need A LOT of work to make it consistent...

[Kat Kanning]

Esperanto?

[Lex]

Esperanto?

That would be ideal but I personally don't like the way that language sounds... heh.