Talk:The Divide (2011 film)

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confabulated etymology edit

Latest comment: 12 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Something to note, the word DECIMATE on the topic page should be changed. To decimate is to destroy one in every ten of an item. So to be precise, unless 9/10th of the city is still standing, it isn't decimated, it is devastated or destroyed.

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86.97.201.89 (talk) 19:59, 23 December 2011 (UTC)Reply

Of course that's as false and stupid as it sounds. "Decimate" has the common meaning of destroy a large part of so if you were to follow out on ignorant conjectural etymologies like that, the logical thing would be to think it meant to reduce to a tenth, destroy 90%. If fact neither is supported and instead there's a real latin derivation that isn't about arithmetic dimunition, at all at all. 72.228.189.184 (talk) 01:18, 26 April 2012 (UTC)Reply

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