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Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, set foot on the restricted territory of North Sentinel – part of India’s Andaman Islands – in an attempt to meet the Sentinelese people, who are believed to number only about 150.
“The American citizen was presented before the local court after his arrest and is now on a three-day remand for further interrogation,” the Andaman and Nicobar Islands police chief, HGS Dhaliwal, told AFP.
I don’t disagree in the slightest — other than “decimate” ≠ “devastate” yet linguistic drift naturally followed the pseudo-Calliope Syndrome that normalized this fuckup, and here we are. 🤦🏼♂️
Ah, the confidently illiterate leading morphology is not on my Boring Dystopia ™ bingo card, but maybe it’s on yours?
edit: Apologies for any hiccups in your comprehension. You can get better, though. Hint: that personal growth doesn’t start in an echo chamber, so don’t be a wart. Read more.
Your neckbeard is showing.
The Cambridge dictionary has this as it’s only definition since it’s other use is archaic.
Using the word to mean reducing by 1/10th started to fall out of use in the 1800s.
I’ll also bet that people who get pedantic over decimate will also use “myriad” as an uncountable noun instead of meaning precisely 10,000, which it used to mean.