True story: I was 32 when I found out that pipe cleaners were for smoking pipes and not like, water pipes.
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I always think it's like "famous" and "infamous," where inflammable is flammable but *worse*
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Wait so... what’s the word for “not flammable” Unflammable? Aflammable? Imflammable?
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Something must mean the thing inflammable is supposed to mean
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nonflammable
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Confusingly, nonflammable, not flammable, and fireproof also mean flammable.
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This has me thinking about the ninja turtle pajamas I had as a kid. The tag said “flame retardant” which just made me imagine burning to death in them slowly But also, they totally ruled
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Worth the slow death
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oh no I even feel like I learned this before and then completely forgot it :<
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I only learned a year or two ago that inflammable meant able to be inflamed, but I had nodded along with the saying for way longer because I thought it was pointing out that even something marketed as not flammable will burn at high enough temperature. words are weird.
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Ironically, that's why "flammable" was coined as a word ("inflammable came first and "not inflammable" confused immigrants who spoke languages with negative concord)
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