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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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