[conspire] Correction

[Tony Godshall]

And now he's in my killfile too.


On Thu, Mar 26, 2020, 10:46 AM Nick Moffitt <nick at zork.net> wrote:

> I would prefer not to receive any further correspondence from you, Texx.
>
> On 26Mar2020 10:31am (-0700), Texx wrote:
> > We have a LOT of words we dont need, many originating in the ebonics
> > dialect and apparently resistance to adopt ebonic words into the
> mainstream
> > has become a racist act.
> > Its this excessive political correctness that brought the Cretin in Chief
> > to power.
> >
> > And very soon, I am going to be forced to appologize for calling him a
> > cretin.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 2:31 AM Nick Moffitt <nick at zork.net> wrote:
> >
> > > On 25Mar2020 04:26pm (+0000), paulz at ieee.org wrote:
> > > >  While we are correcting math misconceptions, the word "decimate" has
> > > been widely used in recent years and the original meaning greatly
> > > distorted.   Decimate has the same root word as "decimal".
> > > >
> > > > Decimation was a draconian punishment of a unit in the Roman army.  1
> > > out of 10 solders in the unit was executed.   Details at:
> > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(Roman_army)
> > >
> > > I forget who originally said it, but it was certainly someone very
> wise:
> > >
> > >         "Does the English language really *need* a word meaning
> 'destroy
> > > one-tenth of'?"
> > >
> > >
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