Is there a word like decimate for an order of magnitude reduction?

[Peremensoe]

@Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension

I only use it when something has been reduce by 1/10th. That way you can say:“It was literally decimated” and start off two word-use arguments at once.

I hope that, someday, I am present when something has been reduced by exactly a tenth–and I remember to say this.

[Shot_From_Guns]

To clarify: I had the correct conception of reducing by an order of magnitude the whole time, which is why I was particularly baffled by some of replies. For some reason, my brain decided to *also *think of decimation as dividing by 10, as opposed to dividing by 10 and then subtracting that number to leave the 90% as the remainder.

So, yeah, sorry about that ToborAton.

[not_alice]

@ToborAton

It will be after I have tenned the number of people using it enough to get it added to whatever dictionary you consider authoritative. Not sure if you’ve noticed but it can be changed.

hey this is the internet! We are all tenners!

[ToborAton]

@not_alice

hey this is the internet! We are all tenners!

Wow the rest of the Internet is already tenning!? I should be ecstatic but I know the internet and there’s no way they are tenning the right way.

[ToborAton]

@ToborAton

Wow the rest of the Internet is already tenning!? I should be ecstatic but I know the internet and there’s no way they are tenning the right way.

Problem solved!

MPSIMS “Happy Birthday: tenning and tenthing!”

Happy Birthday: tenning and tenthing!