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07-09-2020, 04:47 PM   #106
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Why does flammable mean the same as inflammable?
Hi Slarti

I think flammable will burn, jnflammable will burn from a naked flame.

The scientists here will set us all straight...

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So what's your point.
Eh? Don't you see it? It's that sharp thingie. (One of my pet peeves, "thingie".)


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QuoteOriginally posted by ivanvernon Quote
It raises my hackles when someone adds an extra syllable to the word "preventive," as in "preventative."
Disorientating.

A period between every word. Between. Every. Word.

A question mark added at the end of a non-question?

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I think flammable will burn, jnflammable will burn from a naked flame.
Sort of like conceivable and inconceivable?



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07-09-2020, 04:54 PM   #110
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QuoteOriginally posted by stevebrot Quote
I think you opened a can or worms with that one. I used to work for a company that created custom corporate wellness programs, among other things. Both terms were used interchangeably by the company founder and sometimes in the same pamphlet or guide. If corrected, he would respond that "we can accomplish either by healthy living" or was it healthful living.


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So it seems.
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There is only one context that I can think of in which inflammable may be appropriate.
Bodily tissue can become inflamed (swollen), therefore it is inflammable.
Inflammable meaning "capable of being set alight"? No.
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QuoteOriginally posted by Wheatfield Quote
''Decimate''

It's really nowhere near as bad as people make it out to be.
Just one in ten, eh?

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QuoteOriginally posted by Parallax Quote
Inflammable meaning "capable of being set alight"? No.
According to Merriam-Webster, "inflammable" is the older word and is derived directly from the Latin "inflammare", a verb meaning "to cause to catch fire". A few hundred years later, in the early 1800's, someone figured out that derivation from "flammare" (also a verb, "to catch fire") was more correct, hence the birth of "flammable" in English. The dictionary folk say they are synonyms. I tend to use "flammable".

Your reference to the medical "inflammation" is an interesting extension that I will have to ponder. I have never seen "inflammable" used in a medical sense (prone or capable of inflammation).


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QuoteOriginally posted by slartibartfast01 Quote
Has anyone mentioned mixing up infer and imply yet?
Or humble and modest?
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My! Eight pages of pedantry!


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Or humble and modest?
Which of the two was Uriah Heap Heep (think Dickens, not band) ?


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Reveal instead of revelation. In fact, any of the verbified nouns.

Missing hyphens! They show which word is being modified or differentiated. It's a highly-useful old-time linguistic tool, not a highly old useful time linguistic tool.
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QuoteOriginally posted by stevebrot Quote
Sort of like conceivable and inconceivable?

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To some, parthenogenesis is inconceivable...
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My! Eight pages of pedantry!


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...isn’t nearly enough?
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This is a slight detour from the purpose of this thread, but I'll include it for entertainment, if nothing else.

I learned my English in Canada, where a TV that is not B&W is a "colour TV", and a house with five bedrooms is a five bedroom house. Once in the land of OZ, I got more exposure to UK English, so that the TV is now a "coloured TV", and the house is a "five bedroomed house".

I always find myself asking "did someone colour the TV", and "who bedroomed the house?". Oh well...
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