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Dan Dennett once quipped the he would like to see "evitable" as a word, with a similar meaning to "avoidable", but without the connotation that it is a future t
by js8 5y ago
Dan Dennett once quipped the he would like to see "evitable" as a word, with a similar meaning to "avoidable", but without the connotation that it is a future that we wish to avoid.
- erik_seaberg 5y agoSomehow I'm reminded of > Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
- crackercrews 5y ago"Evitable" is a word, in Spanish. https://www.spanishdict.com/translate/evitable https://www.spanishdict.com/translate/evitable
- elevaet 5y agoItalian, Portuguese, French (and others) have basically the same word too. You can even see how "avoidable" comes from that cluster of words, something I never noticed until right now.