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To: Secret Agent Man
"decimated is reducing TO 1/10. wiping out 9/10."

NO!!!

"Deci", the Latin for ten. Decimate was to punish a Roman legion by killing every tenth man.

This is Free Republic. You get it wrong, and people WILL jump down your throat and tap dance on your lungs...

You don't get a free pass because Leftist idiots misuse a word or phrase.

18 posted on 11/14/2016 6:16:13 PM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: jonascord

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/decimation

1. to destroy a great number or proportion of

2. to select by lot and kill every tenth person of

3. (obsolete) to take a tenth of or from


19 posted on 11/14/2016 6:22:23 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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