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A panda eats shoots and leaves, decimating the bamboo crop.

New, page, fail.

I got tired of being corrected and figured it was easier to comply rather than argue the point.

You are right though, it does make it easier to read.

https://www.writing-skills.com/one-space-two-full-stop

I'm talking about, for example, the way some people still put commas and full stops inside quotation marks they logically don't belong to. Practices adopted by compositors in the lead-type era to stop the smallest lead blocks from making the tallest and thinnest lead blocks go askew, etc. Makes no sense when not setting lead type.

I once came across some teacher's syntax-rules web page where they listed these rules, insisted on their observance and gave that section a title like "Typesetter's quotes". So they knew the provenance but hadn't thought about it.

What in "deci" is the clue to "reduced by" rather than "reduced to"?

An education.

I've dented my frame ten times....does that make it decadent?

BREAKING: Fiona Onasanya sentenced to immediate jail sentence of 3 months.

Nah, I am with @clubman on the misuse of decimated.
It sounds bollox when someone uses it to express great losses –the bubonic plague decimated Europe– when you know it only signifies a ten percent reduction. (Albeit an originally rather grim form of reduction.)

Not if the decals are intact.

BREAKING: Fiona Onasanya sentenced to immediate jail sentence of 3 months.

She'll keep her job as an MP then (unless her constituents get enough signatures to recall her), and Labour will be down a vote for the next few months. Timing...

Is this another examples of where 'misuse' of a word becomes the new meaning; for example Lights Years to denote time?

for example Lights Years to denote time?

Nobody uses light years to denote time

You mean like the quantum leap?

You use parsecs obviously.

“Peace with Iraq is light years away. In October 2017, the Iraqi parliament passed a law ......."

quantum does in fact mean "great" I think....

Nobody uses light years to denote time

Yeah I thought that too.

Surely the example is using light years to denote progress. e.g. Japanese minidisc players are light years ahead of ours.

Isn't the Iraq e.g. also about progress - i.e. the author isn't actually talking about the moment in time but the political state of being.

Technically, you could substitute 'light years' with 'miles' though and it would still work.

Wut. A light year in time is... a year

True. “It’s a long way away yet”

Works as distance with progress too

Sarah Light Years.

quantum does in fact mean "great" I think....

It just means "a quantity".

weight and mass?

I couldn't endure the hammy monologuing long enough but he should def team up with this guy for the tag team title

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpTeiSKiCgc