[Ads-l] undecimate

[James A. Landau]

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/12/tesla_undecimates_its_workforce_but_everythings_absolutely_fine/

Headline "Tesla undecimates its workforce but Elon insists everything's absolutely fine"

The story reads "Tesla is cutting nine per cent of its workforce in a "comprehensive organizational restructuring", according to an internal email sent by its CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday."

Google gives 55K hits but most of them seem to be a technical term in physics.  I wonder, had Tesla decided to lay off ten per cent of its workforce, would the headline have read "Tesla decimates..."

- Jim Landau

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