Just need to vent...

In elementary school a double tanker gasoline semi truck would pass by with "inflammable" warnings pasted on it. It was always perplexing.

 

Someone is well regarded because they are rich.
Regardless if he is rich, he is still an oaf.
Irregardless if he is rich, he is still an oaf.

I understand the last two as the same in speech if someone uses either, even written, even though ir isn’t right. I wouldn’t pay any attention to it personally since the meaning is understood by now.

 

It is perplexing so I had to look it up and didn’t know they had an answer for it.


“Flammable vs. Inflammable
Both words mean the same thing, but one of them is bound to confuse most people.

What to Know
Flammable and inflammable look like opposites, but they both describe something that ignites easily and burns quickly. While the prefix in- is most familiar in its “not” meaning, as in inactive and inaccurate, the in- in inflammable is another prefix altogether: it means “to cause to be,” as in the words indent and indebted. Using flammable for what burns and nonflammable for what does not burn is an option if you want to ensure clarity.”

 

It's cause English is a pigdin language. The in- prefix is coming from more than one langauage where its meaning is different in each.

 

The thing that helped me as a kid to understand inflammable was to consider the word inflamed, which meant more than just flamed. Thus, it could be construed that inflammable, was more flammable, than flammable.

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the one that used to get me was ruthless, because i never heard anyone say ruthful

 

Seems the word is actually just ruth. Compassion, pity, or another synonym just gets used. My spell check is even flagging ruth.

Looks like those in- words were borrowed from French, with roots in Latin. Then some English speaking Latin scholar took that root word flammare, and stuck the -able workhorse to it for flammable.
inflammable | Etymology of inflammable by etymonline
Flammable vs. Inflammable: What's the difference? | Merriam-Webster

 

I knew pidgins were smart but not that smart. I guess birds can talk so It makes sense now why texting in English can be a disaster.

 

I once lived in an apartment downstairs from a very attractive girl named Ruth. I flirted with her a few times to no avail. To this day I remain Ruthless. But since I'm now married, I couldn't care less. Well, I'm off to work. I work as an Environmental Consultant. I sometimes deal with flammable, inflammable and nonflammable liquids. Irregardless of there flammability, some of them are highly toxic, especially when commixed.

Oops, I must of mixed up there for their.

commixed always confused me. I prefer to say co-mixed.

Must of? That's another irksome one.

 

alls i know is that that was very funny

 

I reject both co-mixed and conmixed. Two things in question are mixed. That's it. Were they same things they would be one thing not two. They were apart but now are not.

As a general (and perhaps universal) rule, adding letters or words that do not contribute to or refine meaning is poor form

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Restricted to one use of language for communication. Poetry and song lyrics are different kettles of fish. Writers of thise would communicate emotions as well as meaning. What they do is beyond me. But I know it when I like it.

 

"I flirted with her a few times to no avail."

Not so says I. Ruth knew she was a flirtee (I assume thus) and so it benefited her sense of self. P. Max. got practice as flirter, did not get whacked by a purse, and probably benefited also. So yes, there was avail. Surely he ended up Ruthless, but that is not the only avail.

 

Word ruth here comes from rue or ruen; remorse or sorrow. This was Middle-Englished to ruthe, and on you go.

Ruth as an Hebrew name means compassionate friend, I read. This kept me from seeing the whole thing as a a punnish coincidence. There may be a thread of connexion.

 

"Must have" will get you extra credit and a "go to the head of the class"'.

 

Why do I need to get 5 text messages, three emails and a phone call to remind me of a dentist appointment, even after I already confirmed a text AND completed the paperwork from an earlier text that was the same paperwork from my last appointment?

 

More customers are 'forgetting' these days, these many reminders help improve appointment response rates.

If you don't want that many reminders, then you can revoke permissions for some of them. E.g. I didn't give the new dentist taking over my old dentist's practice, legal permission to send texts. I didn't protest, but someone else seems to have 'reminded' them that such were illegal without customer opt-ins, and they eventually went through the required steps to get those voluntary opt-ins.

 

I'll have to do that. It's really annoying and I have the next appointment entered in my calendar before I even leave the chair. My phone even reminds me beforehand too!

 

My little niece used to pat her tummy and say "Ruth full."

 

Interment and internment, as seen in two different articles both read today:

... actor George Takei, a Japanese-American gay man who was interred with his family during World War II's brutal stateside camps, as USS Enterprise helmsman Hikaru Sulu ...​

If that really happened, you gotta admit he looked pretty good in the show twenty years later ....

Other article;

... Cotton periodically filled in for his commanding officer and personally supervised several internments in Arlington National Cemetery’s Section 60, ...​

Makes me wonder who was interned there, and why, and if they've been released yet.