I never realized how much deci- played into the word decimate until this thread.
To me, the old definition makes sense if it’s before a battle or game, since a 10% difference is fairly sizable. After the event, if I heard a team was decimated though, I would immediately be thinking it’s a large difference.
Language evolves, decimate means vast destruction now.
Yeah, I guess I had gotten someone’s weird rant in my head.
I never realized how much deci- played into the word decimate until this thread.
To me, the old definition makes sense if it’s before a battle or game, since a 10% difference is fairly sizable. After the event, if I heard a team was decimated though, I would immediately be thinking it’s a large difference.