It is true...English is anything but precise.





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>>English is a precise language....< g >
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>Yea, right. In a reference call a friend of mine was told "You will be very lucky if you get Jack to work for you" and this was interpreted as a put-down of the highest (worst... there goes that precision again) calibre.
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>...things burn up but they also burn down
>...flammable and inflammable mean the same thing
>...a person might be ineffable but they cannot be effable yet might be f-able.
>...etc, ad infinitum
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