Maven@piefed.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days agoWhats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?message-squaremessage-square532linkfedilinkarrow-up1177arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1174arrow-down1message-squareWhats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?Maven@piefed.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days agomessage-square532linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarerailway692@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·16 days agoDoes English have sufficiently scary words that are also etymologically correct? A population being halvsied just doesn’t hit the same, you know?
minus-squareHugin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·16 days agoBimate removal of half. Decimate comes from decimatus past participle of decimar removal of 1/10.
minus-squarepotoooooooo ☑️@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·15 days ago“Those guys split us right down the middle, then finished half of us off.”
Does English have sufficiently scary words that are also etymologically correct?
A population being halvsied just doesn’t hit the same, you know?
Bimate removal of half.
Decimate comes from decimatus past participle of decimar removal of 1/10.
“Those guys split us right down the middle, then finished half of us off.”
In battle, right?