| ▲ | danielmarkbruce a day ago | |||||||||||||
Sure, but the use of "decimated" is used approximately correctly in most cases, even if not precisely right. And it is a cool sounding word, and it's one word. "Orders of magnitude" is three words when one would do, it's used to sound sophisticated, and it's use is off by... an order of magnitude or so... in many cases | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | missedthecue a day ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||
Hmm... Sometimes decimated is used in ways that are colloquially understandable but actually make no sense at all. For example, "Sadly, my team got decimated in the playoffs". That doesn't even make sense. 1/10th of the team lost the game? What? | ||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | xnx a day ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||
For a long time I thought it meant to reduce to 1/10th not by 1/10th. | ||||||||||||||
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