Maven@piefed.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoWhats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?message-squaremessage-square524fedilinkarrow-up1180arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1177arrow-down1message-squareWhats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?Maven@piefed.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square524fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarerailway692@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·4 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-squarepotoooooooo ☑️@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 days ago“Those guys split us right down the middle, then finished half of us off.”
minus-squareHugin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·4 days agoBimate removal of half. Decimate comes from decimatus past participle of decimar removal of 1/10.
Does English have sufficiently scary words that are also etymologically correct?
A population being halvsied just doesn’t hit the same, you know?
“Those guys split us right down the middle, then finished half of us off.”
In battle, right?
Bimate removal of half.
Decimate comes from decimatus past participle of decimar removal of 1/10.