Also explained by British dictionary: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/flammable-or-inflammable
Cheers On Wed, 24 May 2017 at 02:03 Torix <[email protected]> wrote: > I was told in 1955 that "flammable" was invented to put on trucks because > so many people - including many truck drivers - thought that inflammable > meant "not flammable". Like independent vs. dependent, indivisble vs. > divisible etc. > > > Sent with ProtonMail <https://protonmail.com> Secure Email. > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Doing the english [Was: Kitten1 and kitten2 > compromised (guard/hs/fallback directory)] > Local Time: May 21, 2017 11:22 AM > UTC Time: May 21, 2017 3:22 PM > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 5:16 PM, Ian Zimmerman <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2017-05-20 18:07, Chris Kerr wrote: > > > >> Yes, 'sensible', like 'actually' and 'eventually', is a "false friend" > >> whose meaning in English is different from that in just about every > >> other European language (but the other languages are consistent with > >> each other e.g. 'sensible' in French and 'sensibel' in German have > >> the same meaning), which sometimes leads to confusion. Even more > >> confusingly, 'insensible' is not the opposite of 'sensible' but rather > >> means either 'imperceptible' or 'unconscious'. > > > > I have mused about this myself. The most curious thing is that English > > is not even consistent with itself here. Think about the title of a > > famous enlightenment era novel. The meaning of the nouns is precisely > > inverted from the adjectives. > > Inflammable means flammable? What a country! > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays >
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