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Old 10-03-2012, 05:57 PM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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Ware doo U live??
Altuna, PA

 
Old 10-03-2012, 07:29 PM
 
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Overheard at a sporting event: Four guys were sitting behind us, and the beer guy made several trips there because they were all drinking beer. The beer guy came back once more, and one of the guys refused another beer, saying, "NO, man, I'm the decimated driver."
 
Old 10-03-2012, 07:34 PM
 
Location: Georgia, USA
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Overheard at a sporting event: Four guys were sitting behind us, and the beer guy made several trips there because they were all drinking beer. The beer guy came back once more, and one of the guys refused another beer, saying, "NO, man, I'm the decimated driver."
Ah, decimated!

That's one I hate to see misused. Ninety percent of a population is wiped out and it was "decimated."
 
Old 10-04-2012, 09:22 AM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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Ah, decimated!

That's one I hate to see misused. Ninety percent of a population is wiped out and it was "decimated."
If there had been a few more survivors, we wold have the word "octimated" in our vocabulary.
 
Old 10-04-2012, 10:22 AM
 
Location: Østenfor sol og vestenfor måne
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Not to pick nits, but doesn't decimate mean to reduce by one-tenth, not to one-tenth?
 
Old 10-04-2012, 12:26 PM
 
Location: Brooklyn
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Not to pick nits, but...
I wonder how many people use this expression, and actually do pick nits?
 
Old 10-04-2012, 06:54 PM
 
Location: Georgia, USA
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Not to pick nits, but doesn't decimate mean to reduce by one-tenth, not to one-tenth?

Yep.

So if 90% of a population is wiped out, it was not "decimated."
 
Old 10-04-2012, 07:57 PM
 
Location: Philaburbia
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I wonder how many people use this expression, and actually do pick nits?
Does combing fleas out of the cats' fur count?
 
Old 10-07-2012, 05:48 PM
 
Location: Elsewhere
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From C-D today: "I brang a cake..."
Oh no. I had a friend once who said that. "I brang my son to school, and then I brang him to baseball practice."
 
Old 10-07-2012, 05:50 PM
 
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In another few months, it will be St. Valentime's Day.
There's already a thread in the Religion section about a holloween party.
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