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soldierant

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1. You didn't do this

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Dec 31, 2025, 06:25 PM

1 hr ago

It was Brian Tyler Cohen or someone on his staff - but it's one of my pet peeves.

"Decimate" means to destroy one out of every 10 objects in a group. A person is not a group and therefore cannot be decimated.

(It also does not mean to obliterate. Destroying one out of ten in a group of people may be cruel, but it is not the same as destroying most or all of a group)

As I said, not your fault. Thank you for all your posts, especially formerly Beau, now Belle.

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