[tor-relays] Doing the english [Was: Kitten1 and kitten2 compromised (guard/hs/fallback directory)]

[Jim]

Anders Andersson wrote:
> On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 5:16 PM, Ian Zimmerman <itz at primate.net> wrote:

>> 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!

As I understand it (from a United States perspective) the word 
"inflammable" derives from "likely to burst into flames". So yes,
inflammable = flammable != unflamable (which is not a word; the
opposite of flammable is nonflammable)

Once upon a time it was common in this country for safety warnings
to use the word inflammable (e.g. "inflammable -- no smoking").  But 
because of the tendency to cause the confusion noted above, these days 
the word "flammable" is almost always used  instead for warnings.

If you are looking for consistency and simple rules you can't do much 
worse than English!

Jim