Police say man landed on island in attempt to meet the Sentinelese people – a tribe untouched by the industrial world

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.

  • Grimy@lemmy.world
    232·
    21 hours ago

    The Cambridge dictionary has this as it’s only definition since it’s other use is archaic.

    to kill a large number of something, or to reduce something severely

    Using the word to mean reducing by 1/10th started to fall out of use in the 1800s.

    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      11 hours ago

      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.