[jocon307]

You are right to use the word "innumerate", but I'm not sure this is just a deficiency of the liberals. I often see things quantified badly, "dozens" when the things described number 40 or more, and therefore would be more precisely described as "scores", and "decimated" (to reduce by 10%) is only used properly be accident, I'm sure. I'm a bookkeeper, although I have no head for math (bookkeeping is just arithmetic!) and a great example of a person who has their job because of technology, if the electronic calculator hadn't been invented, I'd be doing something else. But I tell you, this verbal imprecision is most annoying.

[Eala]

You're correct, the fault isn't only with the liberals -- and I suspect that the dozens/scores differentiation is lost on 99% of Americans. And very few know about the ancient Roman army practice of "decimation."

But I've too often seen the media "talk down" the size of politically incorrect groups while either accurately reporting or inflating the numbers of those favoured. It was startling to me to see this real error.