Forced to deploy infantry without armor support in Kharkiv Oblast, Russian commanders sacrificed hundreds of soldiers in open-field assaults against well-prepared Ukrainian positions with FPV drones.
The word ‘decimates’ means to eliminate 10%. So if used correctly, it means that 30 to 40 Russians were killed. The word is hardly ever used correctly.
That may have been the original definition, but words evolve. One of the definitions from the Merriam-Webster dictionary is ‘to cause great destruction or harm to’. So it is used correctly by modern definitions.
Decimates half? So they destroyed 5%?
Hehe, literal meaning
And some people clearly don’t like a joke, right?
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The word ‘decimates’ means to eliminate 10%. So if used correctly, it means that 30 to 40 Russians were killed. The word is hardly ever used correctly.
That may have been the original definition, but words evolve. One of the definitions from the Merriam-Webster dictionary is ‘to cause great destruction or harm to’. So it is used correctly by modern definitions.
Let’s still be considerate to those time traveling from the Roman Empire.
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A professional journalist should know it, though.
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It’s not a correction though, it’s misplaced pedantry. The modern definition does not match the roman practice.
Maybe they decimated them 6-7 times
Wow we see how smart you are, now go back to reading thesaurus.