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Anonymous Wed Mar 7 04:16:38 2018 No.10806897 [Reply] [Original]

>inflammable and flammable mean the same thing

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 7 05:14:22 2018 No.10807033 >>10806897 Learn Latin pleb

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 7 05:19:01 2018 No.10807050 >>10806897 > tfw OP is an inflaming faggot

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 7 05:22:56 2018 No.10807057 >10 page essay due >only have 7 pages done >find and replace flammable with inflammable bam 3 extra pages right there

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 7 05:23:51 2018 No.10807059 >>10806897 Look at this inflammatory faggot.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 7 05:29:24 2018 No.10807073 >>10807050 >>10807059 Please don't inflame the situation

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 7 10:28:33 2018 No.10808044 >>10806897 Any thoughts on the valuable/invaluable pairing? Though they don't mean the same thing, they may as well..

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 7 10:30:26 2018 No.10808050 >>10807057 have to write a 3 page paper I hadn’t even started on and this worked perfectly, thank you

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 7 10:41:03 2018 No.10808093 >>10808044 Valuable is just something that has value, invaluable sort of denotes something being hard or impossible to live without

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 7 16:00:53 2018 No.10809431 >>10806897 one comes from flame and the other from inflame?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 7 16:27:55 2018 No.10809563 This really flames my inflamability

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 7 16:32:21 2018 No.10809594 File: 25 KB, 288x309, no.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >"like" means both to enjoy something and to be similar to something

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 7 16:32:43 2018 No.10809597 >>10808044 Invaluable means it's so special that it can't be given a value e.g. a unique archaeological artefact

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 7 17:20:25 2018 No.10809886 >centipedes aren't 10 times faster than millipedes

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 7 17:52:49 2018 No.10810081 File: 47 KB, 399x400, 1513124372479.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10806897 >famous >infamous

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 7 17:54:24 2018 No.10810088 File: 37 KB, 620x387, milipede.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10809886 >millipedes

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 7 18:05:03 2018 No.10810141 >>10808093 they're often used with the same connotations (as in "highly valuable")

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 7 21:54:01 2018 No.10811152 >>10810141 No they're not. They mean different things and can not be used interchangeably. Is your first language not English because I sometimes see foreigners wonder about differences with words like these.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 7 21:59:36 2018 No.10811171 >>10808093 Invaluable does mean what you would expect. Something invaluable has no value, it can't be priced.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 7 22:01:52 2018 No.10811179 >>10807050 >tfw OP manages to be both a flamer and an inflamer simultaneously

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 7 22:05:18 2018 No.10811198 >>10810081 these have defined differences as well, Tom Hanks is not infamous

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 7 22:08:44 2018 No.10811209 File: 17 KB, 316x239, 1488631902595.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] "fish" can be plural without an "s" now what the heck is that

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 7 22:11:28 2018 No.10811220 >>10811198 >Tom Hanks is not infamous yet

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 7 22:11:31 2018 No.10811221 >>10811209 That's a very fishy rule senpai. Let me swim thru all the information on the Interweb in order to see more of this.

Anonymous Wed Mar 7 22:18:01 2018 No.10811238

>>10811209
The way my linguistics professor explained it is that the plural with no s (fish) refers to more than one individual fish. Ex: I have to pet fish. The plural with es (fishes) refers to more than one KIND of fish. Ex: we same many fishes at the aquarium.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 7 22:19:04 2018 No.10811244 >>10811238 *two pet fish

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 7 22:28:32 2018 No.10811272 >>10811244 to works too

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 7 22:33:45 2018 No.10811291 >>10807073 I appreciate it, anon, and am ingratiated by the attempt.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 7 22:40:09 2018 No.10811310 >>10811171 >Invaluable does mean what you would expect. Wait until anon discovers that "volatile" means having a high vapor pressure and not "flammable".

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 7 22:46:35 2018 No.10811332 File: 5 KB, 184x184, images.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10806897 >entire book consists of nothing but the words "that" and "had" and various punctuation

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 7 23:01:39 2018 No.10811404 >>10811332 is this a thing

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 7 23:06:14 2018 No.10811435 Nonplussed and nonplussed mean opposite things.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 7 23:08:00 2018 No.10811445 >>10811332 That That that had had that that that That had had had had a profound effect on that That that had had that that That had.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 7 23:10:42 2018 No.10811460 it's in from PIE H1en-, not in from PIE n̥-. Learn your phonological history you dingus

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 7 23:37:16 2018 No.10811589 File: 13 KB, 543x271, BF8B0273-6104-47E2-9C70-692DA49BB015.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Tu me manques means “I miss you.”

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 7 23:39:28 2018 No.10811604 File: 257 KB, 415x476, 1519054739310.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >had had

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 7 23:40:44 2018 No.10811607 >>10811604 >hadn't hadn't

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 8 00:01:10 2018 No.10811685 >gay and faggot mean the same thing >one is an insult and the other isn't i don't get it

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 8 05:28:19 2018 No.10812483 >>10811589 What's wrong with that you fucking anglo

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 8 05:45:17 2018 No.10812524 >though, thought, taught, through English is dogshit

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 8 10:02:41 2018 No.10813126 File: 27 KB, 508x524, 1492098348794.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >"fuck me in the ass, my dude" is an actual expression people use

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 8 10:11:44 2018 No.10813158 >>10812524 You left out "drought" and "draught"

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 8 10:14:22 2018 No.10813171 >>10813126 Have you had any success with it?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 8 10:23:10 2018 No.10813203 >>10806897 >Jew means instigator and victim

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 8 10:33:35 2018 No.10813240 >>10809886 Why is it "quadruped" but "centipede"?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 8 10:35:44 2018 No.10813249 In- can mean un- OR "towards", as in, it's "extra" whatever comes after.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 8 10:36:55 2018 No.10813257 >"literally" means "figuratively"

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 8 10:40:29 2018 No.10813276 >>10813257 No. Literally, literally figuratively sometimes mean, figuratively.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 8 10:41:36 2018 No.10813280 >>10809597 I would agree with this, where 'valueless' loses its tail in the mouth of EXTREME value: invaluable..

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 8 11:20:39 2018 No.10813427 lmaoing @ ur language anglos

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 8 11:22:15 2018 No.10813440 >>10813240 There's also tetrapod MAKE UP YOUR MIND, BIOLOGISTS

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 8 11:25:12 2018 No.10813448 >>10809597 This. It really means in-evaluate-able.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 8 11:27:17 2018 No.10813457 >>10812483 Other languages are bad and only mine is beautiful and meaningful This is Four Channel kid, step it up

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 8 11:32:38 2018 No.10813479 >>10813240 What the fucks quadrucenti supposed to mean?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 8 11:41:19 2018 No.10813504 >>10806897 what's the difference? flammable as in burnable and inflammable as in explosively-burnable to say so?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 8 11:47:14 2018 No.10813525 my balls itch

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 8 12:26:07 2018 No.10813628 >>10806897 It's akchually unflamable ye illiteracier.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 8 17:12:54 2018 No.10814834 >>10813126 cool, you must be very handsome

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