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A 10% loss hardly seems like decimation. Your teacher was dumb.
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I don't believe you and I think you're lying
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Jan 6, 2020 04:11
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'Bout to decimate the contents of my intestine
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Jan 6, 2020 04:18
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I don’t like when lazy professional writers use “infamous” and “penultimate” like they’re fancier versions of “famous” and “last”.
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Jan 6, 2020 04:21
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Dinosaurs! posted:I don’t like when lazy professional writers use “infamous” and “penultimate” like they’re fancier versions of “famous” and “last”. These things aren’t the same my dude. No wonder you are confused.
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Jan 6, 2020 04:45
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Yeah, that’s my point.
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Jan 6, 2020 05:06
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Decimate my balls. I have ten balls.
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Jan 6, 2020 05:14
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Dinosaurs! posted:I don’t like when lazy professional writers use “infamous” and “penultimate” like they’re fancier versions of “famous” and “last”. Infamous https://youtu.be/0b6_i_eSgR8
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Jan 6, 2020 06:16
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yes, this actually drives me insane. thank you for exposing this problem, op
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Jan 6, 2020 06:23
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You don’t feel nauseous, you idiot: you feel nauseated. It’s really great correcting people who’re about to hurl on the difference.
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Jan 6, 2020 10:30
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:every language pedant is unbelievably lame to their very core. People who hate being wrong are the worst. Related to decimate, I sure do wish they had updated the months September through December when they added August and July. Absolute nonsense. December should be Duodecember.
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Jan 6, 2020 13:55
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I can't abide this hyperpedantic bullshit, especially when it clashes with actual educated usage. From Garner's Modern English Usage: I taught writing for 11 years. Because most Americans no longer get a direct grammar education, my students would show up with a mix of actually incorrect usage along with the weird wrong-rear end pet peeves of their most unpleasant English teachers. End a goddamn sentence with a preposition. Start one with a coordinating conjunction. These usages have both been correct for hundreds of years. Your teacher was an rear end in a top hat who was wrong. Don't be an rear end in a top hat who's wrong. edit: not you, op some pedant I'm imagining (I hate that pedant so much) Empty Sandwich fucked around with this message at 15:31 on Jan 6, 2020 |
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Jan 6, 2020 15:28
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i would never with a preposition a sentence end
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Jan 6, 2020 15:28
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I end all my sentences with propositions 
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Jan 6, 2020 15:49
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The archon from starcraft except he adds "my balls" to the end of every unit response
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Jan 6, 2020 16:05
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my life for my balls
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Jan 6, 2020 16:19
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You think that's bad, you don't even know the horrors of being centimated or millimated. I imagine the feeling is akin to losing something but you can't for the life of you remember what it was. DandyLion fucked around with this message at 20:08 on Jan 6, 2020 |
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Jan 6, 2020 19:18
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Gigamated 
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Jan 6, 2020 19:51
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It's descriptive vs. prescriptive education. "Here's how a word is commonly used" vs. "Here's how it SHOULD be used, because there's RULES and poo poo." The truth is that a lot of these "rules" were made up over a hundred years ago and are woefully outdated. Things change over time, especially (a living) language. So "decimated" has moved away from its classical roots, and now describes an enormous toll of some sort. Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.
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Jan 6, 2020 21:44
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"Literally" is the biggest linguistic loss of recent times, although I'd argue that "entitled" isn't that far behind. Entitlement is a real concept that serves an important role in clarifying legitimate ownership, collectable debt, or expectation, and in half a decade it has been made to mean the exact opposite. If someone pays the asking price for a ticket to an amusement park, they are entitled entrance to that park based on the agreed upon conditions. If the park tries to kick that person out at 8:00pm and the ticket noted unconditionally that closing time was at 9:00pm, that person is entitled to the extra hour that they would be demanding. However, usage is such now that if a patron got kicked out at 9:00pm and whined about how he or she should be able to stay longer because their child didn't get to ride the ferris wheel, people would accuse that person of being an "entitled rear end in a top hat." This is the opposite of what that word means. People should at least be qualifying the word with something like "that falsely-entitled rear end in a top hat" or something else that identifies that the rear end in a top hat is not literally (hah) due the thing that they are demanding.
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Awesome: (colloquial) Excellent, exciting, remarkable. "That was awesome!", "Awesome, dude!" (dated) Causing awe or terror Awe: Old English ege, æge (“fear, terror, dread”) Awful: (obsolete) Terror-stricken.
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Jan 6, 2020 23:29
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I just decimated my bowels OP
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Jan 6, 2020 23:34
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I correct everybody who uses the word decimate incorrectly. Yeah, I’m that guy. I also accept it if it’s used to mean “reduced by 90%”.
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Jan 6, 2020 23:36
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Chinatown posted:I just decimated my bowels OP I know your pain, brother; I also hate it when I take one of those little poos and it feels like there is a whole bunch more dooks piled up in my colon, too scared to make the plunge
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Jan 7, 2020 00:11
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Chinatown posted:I just decimated my bowels OP That means you still have nine shits on the way op. Stay strong
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Jan 7, 2020 00:29
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The actual meaning of decimation seems to be a quantum leap from the popular usage.
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Jan 7, 2020 00:41
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Play posted:That means you still have nine shits on the way op. Stay strong Sound awesome cant wait.
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The latin word was decimāre, clearly not the same as decimate. Suck it pedants.
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Jan 7, 2020 03:40
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Thinking about it a bit more, I believe a lot of incorrect usage of "literally" could be corrected with syntax changes. A lot of times, people seem to mean "literally" to apply to a word that actually deserves it but accidentally drop it somewhere else in their sentence. "He just dropped off a million packages literally a minute ago," makes it obvious that the speaker is using hyperbole regarding the amount of packages delivered as well as indicates the exact time of the delivery. However, many people seem so antsy to get that "literally" modifier out there that they dump it in their sentence at the first opportunity and change the meaning: "He literally just dropped off a million packages a minute ago." While anyone with a brain cell would know that the speaker doesn't actually mean a literal million packages were delivered, they would still lose the clarification of the timeframe because the speaker's usage no longer indicated "literally" was meant to be applied to "a minute ago." I don't think the word is completely lost yet, but it'd definitely help if people paid a little attention to how they ordered their sentences.
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I have a Pavlovian response to correct mixups between "less" and "fewer."
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Jan 7, 2020 18:36
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Applewhite posted:I have a Pavlovian response to correct mixups between "less" and "fewer." Try being less of a loser.
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Try being fewer losers, you mean.
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