What new word did you learn today?

I wonder, if you are irrigardless, do you first need to irrigate your regard with water, before it can become 'less'?

 

Lol, i will kick you in your shins

 

Today I learned zugzwang, which isn't widely used but is super fun to say!

Roughly, it's a situation in chess where the only moves a player can make are to her own disadvantage.

 

You are making my teeth itch.

"Irregardless. "

 

*Whispers from somewhere in the back of the room*

Still shouldnt be a word

 

^ Like Inflammable. What the heck does it MEEEAN??!! That something can burn, or that it can't? Totally opposite ideas, but both contained in the same ridiculous word. They should just use Flammable.

(Of course, they're not going to label something that can't catch fire...)

 

"Inflammable" is the older word by 200 years.

 

"Flame retardant" is a pretty unwieldy term. Maybe we need to revise the dictionary.

 

Lol this has been made i to a book cover

 

Which book?

 

showrunner: apparently someone who controls a television show.

[source: https://www.thewrap.com/macgyver-magnum-pi-showrunner-peter-lenkov-fired-by-cbs/]

 

I don’t understand. Flammable means can catch on fire easily, inflammable means it won’t or is difficult to catch on fiery.

If they just used flammable how would we differentiate?

 

They both mean the same thing.

 

People make that mistake because putting an 'in' before a word usually changes the meaning to it's opposite (inflexible, inappropriate etc). But in the case of flammable, it has a different meaning. It means the substance can easily inflame, or burst into flames. The word fell out of common usage but was still being used on cargo of trucks etc as a warning, but most people thought it meant the opposite. Very dangerous situation.

"Hey Mac, stub out the butt, would'ja? You're gonna blow us all to kingdom come!"

"Aw, quit yer yappin' Shorty! Look, it says right there 'Inflammable'. Ya just gotta learn yourself how ta read like I done, see?"

 

You're so in-incorrect.

 

Had to look twice.

 

I know, I figured out how to turn a double negative into a positive.

 

Wouldn't that be in-uncorrect?

 

Manguage Langler at your service.

 

Since when?

Inflammable means ‘won’t burn’ and I don’t care what the dictionaries say. I shall go on using it to mean ‘safe to put a naked flame to’, and to hell with the consequences.

 

Is there any other kind of flame?

 

That’s a good question. Another stupid term we use.