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[Marghanita da Cruz]

jim birch wrote:
> I guess if you had to bury the bodies of your family and friends,
> decimation - one in ten dead - would be devastating.  Bit in these
> days of gratuitous up scale violence, sanitised in movies and on the
> news, decimation is hardly worth reporting.  So the word has moved on
> to bigger, better and brighter things.
>
Since we are having a grumble, the morphing of establishment from noun to verb 
bothers me.

Though, this could be attributed to the establishment of active English.

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