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

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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 <torix at protonmail.com> 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.
>
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> Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Doing the english [Was: Kitten1 and kitten2
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> Local Time: May 21, 2017 11:22 AM
> UTC Time: May 21, 2017 3:22 PM
> From: pipatron at gmail.com
> To: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
>
> On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 5:16 PM, Ian Zimmerman <itz at primate.net> 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!
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