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To: Moonman62
"Conflagration" used to mean a great fire. Now it is used to denote any large disaster.

"Debt" used to denote a financial obligation. It has been extended to include any obligation, not just those financial.

"Insane" has a very specific legal meaning. Yet it is commonly used to refer to liberals of all stripes.

Words change and expand their meaning by metaphor. To use "decimate" to describe a mass annihilation is perfectly acceptable, and has been for decades.

39 posted on 11/16/2019 7:26:39 AM PST by IronJack
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To: IronJack
"Insane" has a very specific legal meaning. Yet it is commonly used to refer to liberals of all stripes.

Good one.

Words change and expand their meaning by metaphor. To use "decimate" to describe a mass annihilation is perfectly acceptable, and has been for decades.

I think "decimate" sounds like it should mean mass annihilation.

53 posted on 11/16/2019 7:47:05 AM PST by Moonman62 (Charity comes from wealth.)
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