Why Do I Bother Even Looking at the OWL's Blog?

 Because it's a few minutes not paying attention to depressing real important shit.  In any case:

But I will give her a tiny bit of credit in that both media, and fake media, and fake people mis repeatedly use words a lot.   So at the metal level, she has a tiny point.  It's her choice here that is comical.

Historic, as in . . . .has it been done before?  So this is a first in (known) history. That is an easy thing to understand.

So this usage she focuses on, is just plain 3rd grader dumb. As in, a 3rd grader can see the flow in her observation.

Now I do have some word peeves.  I hate it when people seem to misuse decimate.  As that used to have a very specific meaning:  reduce by 10%.  Specifically, the membership of a disobedient Roman  Century, where it gets broken down to units of 10 soldiers, who have to decide which one of them has to die, at that hands of the others.

But due to more likely just not knowing  the meaning, never mind origin, people now use if for any slaughter.

I learned the lesson, decades ago, that one really has better shit to do than fight word usage.  Except when politicians do it to spread misinformation about issues. Now then. Go have at it!  Protect truth to protect then nation and the people.  Let the trivia alone.