Personally I love oranges but cant stand orange juice.

  • railway692@piefed.zip
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    11 hours ago

    Does English have sufficiently scary words that are also etymologically correct?

    A population being halvsied just doesn’t hit the same, you know?

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      4 hours ago

      Bimate removal of half.

      Decimate comes from decimatus past participle of decimar removal of 1/10.