Comments by "Enyo" (@--enyo--) on "Chester Nimitz: Grand Admiral of the Pacific" video.

  1. That’s no longer incorrect usage. Historically speaking, yes, it meant to reduce by one tenth (e.g. cut off the head of every tenth man), however that is no longer the case. Now it means ‘kill, destroy, or remove a large proportion of’ E.g.- the local population was decimated by disease and famine Like everything, language moves on.
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  2. Simon is in the Czech Republic. I don’t know how it works with YouTube being US, and don’t know where his writers are. US, maybe, as he uses Imperial in Biographics videos. But who knows where ‘Biographics’ officially is...
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  3. You mean... Simon?
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  4. To be fair he doesn’t do the editing.
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  5. I could have sworn there was one on Arthur Conan Doyle, but I must be mistaken. They have the April Fools Sherlock Holmes one. But yeah, I’d second that. I really enjoyed the one on H.P.Lovecraft. Also I’d really like to see either Jane Austen or Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
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  6. Strate Shooter Chill. I don’t know where you get the ‘military bashing’ idea from (literally went back to read the post again to make sure I hadn’t missed something), but it’s a bit of a stretch. They’re simply asking for a few literary/artistic figures to be featured. Nothing wrong with that.
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  7. Correctly labelled
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  8. That’s completely untrue.
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