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# me likey
Can you do an animation to illustrate the difference between decimate and destroy please? That's the one that pisses me off.
(I helped save b3ta! Staticgirl, Wed 8 Oct 2003, 16:45, archived)
# what am I?
your decimate-destroy-difference-animated-education-creator?


actually... yes, I suppose I could make one...
(I helped save b3ta! stup0t, Wed 8 Oct 2003, 16:45, archived)
# xxxxx
I believe you are a worthy guardian of our linguistic standards, sir.
(I helped save b3ta! Staticgirl, Wed 8 Oct 2003, 16:51, archived)
# I was reading my little sister's copy of Sugar (really, it was hers)
and they don't know the difference between 'ravage' and 'ravish'.
Or 'radish', like as not.
(I helped save b3ta! MissPrism, Wed 8 Oct 2003, 17:08, archived)
# Decimate
means to take every tenth person and behead them. It is how the romans punished the troops.
Destroy means to take every person and mush them up into tiny unrecognisable peices then burn them or something
(Baj does Minecraft - http://www.youtube.com/w92baj, Thu 9 Oct 2003, 13:45, archived)