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100's of millions will die a horrible death due to Chinese virus

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    100's of millions will die a horrible death due to Chinese virus

    A new deadly virus spreading across U.S. could decimate the rabbit population - CBS News

    #2
    It's called 'get Brexit done'.
    "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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      #3
      It will cross to squirrels and then look out Birmingham Clap Clinic.

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        #4
        Will someone teach those Americanists English, please. Decimate means 'remove every tenth individual, or reduce by a tenth'.
        And while we're being pedantic, a 'rabbit' is something a lady uses when she doesn't have a man, or she does have a man but he's not up to the job. God help female-kind if that ever gets hit by a virus...

        His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...

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          Originally posted by Mordac View Post
          Will someone teach those Americanists English, please. Decimate means 'remove every tenth individual, or reduce by a tenth'.
          And while we're being pedantic, a 'rabbit' is something a lady uses when she doesn't have a man, or she does have a man but he's not up to the job. God help female-kind if that ever gets hit by a virus...

          To be pedantic, you were stating the historical meaning of decimate. The contemporary meaning is:

          kill, destroy, or remove a large proportion of.
          "the inhabitants of the country had been decimated."

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            #6
            Originally posted by Old Greg View Post
            To be pedantic, you were stating the historical meaning of decimate. The contemporary meaning is:

            kill, destroy, or remove a large proportion of.
            "the inhabitants of the country had been decimated."
            The contemporary meaning is, not to put too fine a point on it, wrong.
            His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...

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              #7
              Originally posted by Mordac View Post
              The contemporary meaning is, not to put too fine a point on it, wrong.
              No it isn't. You're just poorly educated.

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                #8
                Originally posted by Mordac View Post
                The contemporary meaning is, not to put too fine a point on it, wrong.
                The contemporary meaning is, not to put too fine a point, right, literally by definition. Word meanings change over time. It's usage now that matters.

                Nice used to mean silly.
                Silly used to mean worthy or blessed.
                Hussy used to mean housewife
                Egregious used to mean conspicuously good. Now it mean conspicuously bad.

                Famously, when Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.

                TL;DR - don't be a prat.
                Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
                  The contemporary meaning is, not to put too fine a point, right, literally by definition. Word meanings change over time. It's usage now that matters.

                  Nice used to mean silly.
                  Silly used to mean worthy or blessed.
                  Hussy used to mean housewife
                  Egregious used to mean conspicuously good. Now it mean conspicuously bad.

                  Famously, when Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.

                  TL;DR - don't be a prat.
                  As is:

                  An Austrian army awfully arrayed
                  Boldly by battery besieged Belgrade.

                  I haven't heard that Charles II quotation. Thanks for sharing.

                  Unfortunately Mordac is suffering from the etymological fallacy. He should consider that next time he drinks a spirit (and consider Genesis 1:2, NAT).

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                    Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
                    The contemporary meaning is, not to put too fine a point, right, literally by definition. Word meanings change over time. It's usage now that matters.

                    Nice used to mean silly.
                    Silly used to mean worthy or blessed.
                    Hussy used to mean housewife
                    Egregious used to mean conspicuously good. Now it mean conspicuously bad.

                    Famously, when Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.

                    TL;DR - don't be a prat.
                    It still does in my house...
                    His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...

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