NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Imagine losing your home and your workplace in the same year. 2020 was a double whammy for a Germantown resident whose home was destroyed in the tornado and office was decimated in the Christmas Day bombing.
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Destroyed, not decimated. Some of these reporters and editors need to go back to school.
Yeah... Decimated, that means 1 in 10 killed. The kicker? The Romans used it as punishment, for like cowardice. Every 10 men, 9 kills the 10th. After the officers and leaders are whacked, of course.
ReplyDeleteThe misuse of decimated is one of my linguistic pet peeves. And don't get me started on lose/loose, along with "could/should of".
ReplyDeleteLack of punctuation and capitalization drives me crackers. I'm not going to give myself a headache trying to figure out what you're trying to say if you're too lazy to make it understandable.||
DeleteRemember, there's a big difference between "Let's eat, Grandma" and "Let's eat Grandma."
People misuse that word all the time! It drives me crazy.
ReplyDeleteWhen reading stories where the word decimated erroneously appears, the appropriate word they are trying for is devastated.
ReplyDelete"Enormity" and "notorious" instead of "big" and "famous." Reporters don't know grammar or meaning, nor do too many editors.
ReplyDeleteAnd very few understand the right politics. Many are commies that will become dissolved in a solution that renders them a foul liquid. Did I break any grammar or meaning laws here?
DeleteMaybe he meant obliterated.
ReplyDelete"Asked" and "Axed" are my two pet peeves. Along with Calvary and Cavalry.
ReplyDeleteAnd do not get me started on the acronym 'Nazi' instead of 'NAZI'.
ReplyDeleteOddly, a lot of socialists are tossing around the acronym for 'National Socialists' as though all those other socialists are wrong, bad, and evil... simply because 'those other socialists are disagreeable sourpusses'.
Based on my experience, pretty much all socialists are disagreeable sourpusses.