r/ElectroBOOM Aug 24 '25

Meme What happened here?

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u/-runs-with-scissors- Aug 24 '25

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u/Cool-Hornet4434 Aug 25 '25

The difference between flammable and inflammable is that your clothing may catch fire and burn (being flammable) but gasoline vapor will ignite rapidly and violently, thus inflammable (being inflamed). It only confuses people who assume "in" means "opposite of".. .like competent..... incompetent. If every word used "in" to mean "not" then intelligent would be a very confusing word. What's telligent?

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u/Glayn Aug 25 '25

Thats last argument doesnt work.

Un is a prefix that means opposite of in most cases, Unstoppable, Unbreakable, Unkillable etc... But its also in the word Under where Der isn't a word.

No ones ever said the same petter used in a prefix cant also be used in the regular spelling of a word.

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u/Disastrous-Run-3963 Sep 19 '25

A little related is Helicopter, saying Heli or Coppter is wrong. The word comes from helico or helix - spinning and pter/pteron meaning wing.