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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
Do the people who use "decimate" to mean "devastate" go to that part of hell too?
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It amuses me when I read "decimate" being used in the sense of "everybody being killed", or something similar. Decimation was, of course, the punishment for cowardice in the Roman legions, and involved (as the name suggests) every
tenth man being killed by his comrades. ie a 90% survival rate.