--- On Fri, 12/19/08, Amit Varma <amitbl...@gmail.com> wrote: > But an exaggerated sense of > > indignation over trivialities is part of the fun of > being a pedant and a > > Silk-list loony. > > > > Oh, cool, so this is just for fun. That's okay then -- > because you're wrong > on both 'an history' and 'decimate', if we > are to go by common usage and the > dictionaries. But fun is good! :)
How dare you imply that my righteous indignation did not prove that I am incontrovertibly, irrefutably right. This is war! War, I tell you! Plus, I was under the impression that some form of monetary compensation was involved. Payment by the word, that sort of thing? What sort of idiot would spend this much time on a Friday afternoon ranting about this sort of thing for _fun_? Oh, wait. cheers, Divya P.S: I'm still going to assert that decimate is better used to convey the original sense. As Mark Twain once said, the difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
