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It is pretty silly for "flammable" and "inflammable" to be commonly defined as synonyms. Also pretty silly for "flammable"/"inflammable" to be synonyms when "c
by _Nat_ 5y ago
It is pretty silly for "flammable" and "inflammable" to be commonly defined as synonyms.
Also pretty silly for "flammable"/"inflammable" to be synonyms when "combustible"/"incombustible" are antonyms.
Does seem like folks ought to stop using the old definition of "inflammable", but if they must, seems like it ought to be spelled as "enflammable", much like "enrage" displaced "inrage".
["Rebracketing", Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebracketing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebracketing) has a neat discussion about the interpretation-ambiguity.
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