Maven@piefed.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 days agoWhats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?message-squaremessage-square535linkfedilinkarrow-up1183arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1180arrow-down1message-squareWhats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?Maven@piefed.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 days agomessage-square535linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarerailway692@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·14 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-up7·14 days agoBimate removal of half. Decimate comes from decimatus past participle of decimar removal of 1/10.
minus-squarepotoooooooo ☑️@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·13 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?