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[–] 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

If we're putting effort into fixing how society uses words, can we work on flammable versus inflammable first? Then I vote for fixing the odd one out in the terrible, terrific, horrible, horrific quad. Then the split between awful and awe. Then...

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    can we work on flammable versus inflammable first?

    no. also you missed horrid

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I didn't miss it. It just doesn't cleanly fit into this framework (imagine it as a square table instead of a list):

    Horror + -ble = horrible (bad)
    Horror + -ific = horrific (bad)
    Terror + -ble = terrible (bad)
    Terror + -ific = terrific (good)

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