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Offline JuST Peter

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ENGLISH LANGUAGE
« on: June 30, 2014, 08:44:20 PM »
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Re: ENGLISH LANGUAGE
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2014, 08:55:56 PM »
Whew!  I won't ever be "completely finished", but I teeter on the brink of being "finished completely"!
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Re: ENGLISH LANGUAGE
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2014, 09:05:36 PM »
Quote from: Biggles on June 30, 2014, 08:55:56 PM
Whew!  I won't ever be "completely finished", but I teeter on the brink of being "finished completely"!
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Re: ENGLISH LANGUAGE
« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2014, 11:27:27 PM »
English is stupid....

Normally a prefix will alter the meaning of a word to it's opposite, such as Valid and Invalid, but Flamable and Inflamable mean the same thing.  Go figure.
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Re: ENGLISH LANGUAGE
« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2014, 01:41:16 AM »
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Re: ENGLISH LANGUAGE
« Reply #5 on: July 01, 2014, 10:59:19 PM »
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Re: ENGLISH LANGUAGE
« Reply #6 on: July 02, 2014, 08:12:48 AM »
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Re: ENGLISH LANGUAGE
« Reply #7 on: July 02, 2014, 12:43:51 PM »
Quote from: StinkyPete on June 30, 2014, 11:27:27 PM
English is stupid....

Normally a prefix will alter the meaning of a word to it's opposite, such as Valid and Invalid, but Flamable and Inflamable mean the same thing.  Go figure.

Or

past and future use of the same word (spoken in brackets)

today I read (red) a book and tomorrow I will read (reed)

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