[ExI] !,. $#@%
    Damien Broderick 
    thespike at satx.rr.com
       
    Sun May 27 02:34:31 UTC 2007
    
    
  
>Should we boycott "inflammable" because it violates the prefix
>assumption that "in" means not?
No, because it doesn't--it's ambiguous, which is why the word should 
be, and largely was, replaced. Here are some "in-" words that quite 
clearly don't mean "not-":
incarcerate doesn't mean "to set free"
incorporate doesn't mean "to discorporate" or exclude from the body
inculcate, induce, indigene, indicate, inspire
Wanna ban them as well? :)
Damien Broderick 
    
    
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