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Re: The Strange Case of the English Language
How about inflammable? It literally means the opposite of what it should mean. and if you look it up in websters, it actually has a synonym of Flammable. WTH? Can you set fire to it or not? (View Post)2 -
Re: The Strange Case of the English Language
I have another one to add to the pot. Wind. 1. The wind blew in from the east. 2. He had to wind up the toy before it would run. WHT? Same word. Same spelling. To completely different pronunciations … (View Post)3 -
Re: Your favourite playable races
One of the things I really liked about the Krynn setting was Kender. They were different enough from hobbits as to be playable in their own right, but still similar enough that you could have fun wit… (View Post)3 -
Re: DVD/Blu-Ray Commentaries
To each their own. The commentaries that I enjoy the most generally have little to do with the actual making of the program itself and more to do with the actors and their remembrances. (View Post)2 -
Re: The Strange Case of the English Language
And still another fun fact about language and popular culture. The popular 'Three letter acronym' phenomenon has it's own Three letter acronym (TLA). (View Post)7
