onsdag 18 februari 2009

lols, dumb comment on scary accident

Another of my english posts... this time, we had to find an article, find a post (a blog post) about commenting the article.
http://drbethsnow.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/that-must-have-been-messy/
wrote about the skiers who where trapped and evacuated from the dangeling gondolas, this tuesday.I read CNN's article:
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/12/16/canada.gondola.accident/index.html
She comments an incorrect word usage in the news story, which made me laugh.I've quoted her comment here, and bolded the humorus part:
By 6:15 p.m., all of the passengers had been evacuated, CTV B.C. reported.The skiers and snowboarders were evacuated? Ewww!“Evacuate” means to remove things from. If you evacuate a town or a building, it means you remove all the people from said town or building. If you evacuate a gondola car, you remove the skiers and snowboarders from the gondola car.If you evacuate the skiers and snowboarders, however, it means you are taking their insides out. Messy. (Fortunately, no one was seriously injured [although this would undoubtedly have been really scary!], so I feel OK about picking on the incorrect word usage in this news story).I do feel the same thing, the accident must hade been really really scary! To be trapped in a gondola car while you know that the tower is broken in half can't be good for your mental health.

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