[Duo2400] Re: off topic jargon

[Gregg Eshelman]

--- mac at ozymandias.unm.edu wrote:
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> However, I still
> punch everybody I hear misusing the word 'decimate.'

Isn't that from the old Roman practice of rounding up
100 of the enemy of the moment, tying them to posts
arranged in a circle then slitting the throat of
every 10th man until only one survivor was left to
send back to tell the tale?

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"When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins." Hiro Protagonist

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