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Russia Has Decimated Ukraine's M1 Abrams Fleet
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I hate the use of the word "decimate" to describe "total or near total destruction", even though the word's structure clearly doesn't mean that (decimation is called that cause it is a reduction by 10%). It would be like if future generations began using the word centimeter to just mean "really small length" instead of "hundredth of a meter".
I think it would sound much better if 86% was described as "nearly 9 decimations" or "about 8 and a half decimations". We should start doing that.
Ok, this word pedantry is dumb. I'll make an actual comment on the news.
Thank you! 100% agree.
Now, apparently "decimate" has been being misused this way since the 1600s so some argue that means "decimate = nearly annihilate" is valid. No, it means people have been being wrong about the meaning of this word for 400 years.
Big same, didn't see your comment before I groused about the same thing
No I'm right there with you, I know language grows and evolves but it's annoying to me that decimation is most often used to describe catastrophic loses or near annihilation
I need the following words to be banned from headlines: decimated, unprecedented, slammed,