[ SECRET POST #2097 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2097 ⌋

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Comments

[lielac]

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Muphry's law strikes again!

Oh, while we're airing pet peeves... everyday and "every day" are NOT THE SAME THING. The former is a synonym of 'ordinary', while in the second 'every' modifies 'day' to state how often something is done. And. And. There's another one (I think) that the spellchecker wouldn't catch, where a compound word's meaning is different from that of the two-word phrase. It makes me want to flip tables every time because THAT IS NOT WHAT THOSE WORDS MEAN

Blar,
Lielac

P.S.: I will never give up the decimate/devastate fight. There's not even a 'but decimate sounds better' argument... okay kind of because the latter ends in -tate but the former ends in -mate BUT WHATEVER THEY HAVE THE SAME CADENCE AND VERY SIMILAR SOUNDS AND THE SAME SYLLABLE COUNT AND AND AND

ARGH

-Hulks out, flips tables-

[(Anonymous)]

the only reason "decimate" / "devastate" doesn't bother me is because the actual meaning of "Decimate" is something that you need on so few occasions, it really doesn't seem that necessary to keep the meanings distinct. how often have you actually, specifically, meant decimate? has it EVER happened?

But otherwise, I'm with you.

[(Anonymous)]

Agh, decimate. I used to have no problem with this word until I actually *found out* the 'reduce by tenth' thing, and I was old enough at that point that the usage was already carved into my mental dictionary. It still looks 'right' when I read it, and I still catch myself using it sometimes.

(I actually never thought of 'devastate' as the automatic replacement word...I don't know, because 'decimate' always comes to mind when thinking about a heavy loss in battle, while 'devastate' is so tied to the emotional usage? "The army was devastated" gives me the impression that the army didn't get its shipment of Justin Beiber posters.)

[lielac]

Well, a heavy loss would be pretty devastating. The survivors probably lost friends, not to mention the sheer horror of so many dead around them...

[(Anonymous)]

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decimate makes me think of heavy physical loss but devastate is great emotional hurt

so "the army was decimated" means a lot of the army was destroyed and
"the army was devastated" means the army's crying from butthurt

anyway, passing-by icon love!

[lielac]

Except decimate isn't heavy physical loss! :/ It's one-tenth! -whiiiinge-

Thanks for the icon love, though. :3

[(Anonymous)]

first anon

That's exactly correct, and exactly my problem. The incorrect use of 'decimate' is so ingrained into my vocabulary that when that's what I mean, using anything else just *looks wrong*, to the point where I just write around the situation entirely.

I support you in your fight, though; maybe you'll reach someone else *before* they develop this mental tic.