Police say man landed on island in attempt to meet the Sentinelese people – a tribe untouched by the industrial world

Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, set foot on the restricted territory of North Sentinel – part of India’s Andaman Islands – in an attempt to meet the Sentinelese people, who are believed to number only about 150.

“The American citizen was presented before the local court after his arrest and is now on a three-day remand for further interrogation,” the Andaman and Nicobar Islands police chief, HGS Dhaliwal, told AFP.

  • Øπ3ŕEnglish
    8•1 month ago

    I don’t disagree in the slightest — other than “decimate” ≠ “devastate” yet linguistic drift naturally followed the pseudo-Calliope Syndrome that normalized this fuckup, and here we are. 🤦🏼‍♂️

    Ah, the confidently illiterate leading morphology is not on my Boring Dystopia ™ bingo card, but maybe it’s on yours?

    edit: Apologies for any hiccups in your comprehension. You can get better, though. Hint: that personal growth doesn’t start in an echo chamber, so don’t be a wart. Read more.

    • Komodo Rodeo
      39•1 month ago

      I don’t disagree in the slightest — other than “decimate” ≠ “devastate” yet linguistic drift naturally followed the pseudo-Calliope Syndrome that normalized this fuckup, and here we are. 🤦🏼‍♂️

      Ah, the confidently illiterate leading morphology is not on my Boring Dystopia ™ bingo card, but maybe it’s on yours?

    • @[email protected]
      25•1 month ago

      The Cambridge dictionary has this as it’s only definition since it’s other use is archaic.

      to kill a large number of something, or to reduce something severely

      Using the word to mean reducing by 1/10th started to fall out of use in the 1800s.

      • @[email protected]
        10•1 month ago

        I’ll also bet that people who get pedantic over decimate will also use “myriad” as an uncountable noun instead of meaning precisely 10,000, which it used to mean.