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decimate ... as in "the town was decimated" meaning the town was completely destroyed. It actually comes from the Latin root word for ten and it means to take one out of ten i.e. 10 percent - not 100 percent.
"is when" ... as in "Skiing is when you slide down a mountain on snow." I hear "is when" all the time, from everywhere. I forget the name of the part of speech, but "when" cannot be the direct object of the verb "to be." I remember this from 8th grade English when we diagrammed sentences.
"I just wanna say" ... People always say this and then they say what they wanted to say
infused ... was recently the latest "hip" term for everything in the trendy food world. (It has been replaced now by "foams"). E.g. a cherry coke would be a "cherry infused cola beverage" (and would cost $14).
Usually its use is fine, but I do hate it when in certain discussions about meaning people try and stomp out a philosophical position by calling it "semantics". Well, yeah, duh, it is indeed semantics. That's what the subject is. It's about meaning. Semantics. That's not even a response, much less a smart one.
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