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Ken Hiebert, unfortunately, you are hopelessly out of date despite being correct historically and etomologically. The most recent actual decimation I'm aware of followed the unsuccessful May Uprising of 1919 in which a barracks of Red solders was decimated by Freikorp goons. Nowadays it is synonymous with massacre. I also lament the loss of the real meaning of unique in the morass of impossible qualifiers: really unique, highly unique, most unique, more unique. But then we have all kinds of words for things that cannot be, for instance the sentence "It is inconceivable that...", a sentence that contradicts itself when uttered. I am not happy with "I will try and explain this to you" as a meaningless substitute for "I will try TO explain this to you." You got me started! _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
