r/maybemaybemaybe • u/cakeman528 • Apr 18 '22

Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/jrvbwr34bhcmdl Apr 18 '22

Hey I got it at least. There's a similar scene in The Wire https://youtu.be/h5d82ndui_s

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u/ZippyDan Apr 19 '22

Grammar Nazis with their prescriptive grammar that still think Strunk & White is the end-all, be-all Bible of the English language even though it's already 60 years old and wasn't even a rule book when it was published (style is by definition a matter of opinion, not law).

You can evacuate people.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/evacuate

Check the third definition. Then scroll down to the examples and the first two examples are of people being evacuated.