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Augustus 17 CE rule (slrpnk.net)

submitted 10 months ago by CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[-] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 36 points 10 months ago

Wow he was decimated

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

I love this! The linguaphile pedant in me seethes every time someone uses the modern definition of decimation and it sometimes takes physical effort not to be THAT guy about it 😅

[-] wandermind@sopuli.xyz 12 points 10 months ago

This is called the etymological fallacy

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Nah, I know that the common usage is by definition also correct, but that doesn't mean I have to like it any more than "literally" also meaning "figuratively" now.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby 25 points 10 months ago

I'm one of the 9 in 10.

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

Me too. Let's find the seven others.

[-] verenor@lemmy.tf 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Another one found, six more to go.

[-] moistclump@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Present. 5 more.

[-] Keineanung@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

I'm in. 4 more.

[-] DataDisrupter@feddit.nl 8 points 10 months ago

Reporting in. 3 to go.

[-] PrincessTardigrade@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

I'm here. Just 2 more left.

[-] Silentiea@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago

Whew, just made it. Glad I'm not that person.

[-] survivalmachine@beehaw.org 9 points 10 months ago

Decimation was a practice of group punishment in Roman times, where if a group of 100 soldiers deserted, you might punish them by forcing them to kill 1 in 10 of their rank. 1 in 10 would be beaten to death by the other 9. Nowadays, we use decimate to mean a significant loss in general, but the root Latin "decimatio" literally meant "removal of a tenth".

[-] yemmly@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

The scene minutes before they start pounding his ass

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

Long.

The Matt Helm spy books of the 1960s-1980s were far superior to the James Bond novels.

In one of them, the bad guys have an imposter on the phone with Helm, impersonating Helm's long time boss. Helm realizes the scam because the phony misuses 'decimate.' That's how 4th grade me learned this.