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Originally Posted by 6charlong
And why do “flammable” and “inflammable” mean the same thing? Shouldn’t they be opposites?
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Interesting reading the follow-ups. A cognitive strategy I have recently noticed that I use is to assign some rational interpretation to anything that doesn't make sense. In this case, I'd noted the two words somewhere in my adolescence and had concluded that "inflammable" must mean not only "able to be ignited" but "prone to ignite explosively," due to the context in which I would see the term, compared to the usual context of "flammable." Thirty years later, I am finally corrected....
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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce
My personal crusade is to save the adverbs! I even wrote a company because of the text on their cereal box: "Why eat organic?".
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A former president of the university where I work was quoted as saying "Think global, act local." Argh!
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Originally Posted by jinlo
I've always wondered why Martians say "Grapzlok Menutian", but then they say "Spindaf wronk chermunkle" and I realize it's just friendly banter unrelated to e-books and mobile devices.
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Hm. I see you're using the Sprrk phoneticization. I've always prefered the Fllt, myself, as I think it captures the flavinoids better. (I'll grant you that most humans can't distinguish them without special equipment, but I think it's important to preserve the linguistic features as accurately as possible, don't you?)