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[Mike Dougherty]

On 5/26/07, gts <gts_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> We don't treat "near-black" and "near-white" as synonyms.
> We don't treat "near-top" and "near-bottom" as synonyms.
> We don't treat "near-genius" and "near-moron" as synonyms.
> We don't treat "near-freezing" and "near-boiling" as synonyms.

flammable and inflammable mean the same thing.

Should we boycott "inflammable" because it violates the prefix
assumption that "in" means not?

With how language has been raped by popular misuse, does it make that
much difference to try to definitively argue near-miss vs.
near-collision?