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...and don't get me started on the misuse of "literally "... I heard someone say the other day, "my boss walked in, and I literally shat myself" I'm pretty certain he meant figuratively, or my guess is we wouldn't be colleagues any more. On Mon, 6 Aug 2018, 17:04 David McDonald via Marxism, < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > Ken Hiebert, unfortunately, you are hopelessly out of date despite being 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/nelsontim86%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ 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
