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The line is getting a little blurry between "sane" and "insane" too
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Blame it on Latin and it's tricky prefixes. Historically both words mean the same thing. The prefix "in" has misled people to assume it means "not". However, since the prefix is derived from the Latin preposition, it does not mean that.
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They are exact duplicates of each other under different date and time. http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/1665562
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the philologists developed a conspiracy in 1836 to drive chemists crazy, so they asserted that, "flammable" and "inflammable" mean the same thing. so far, about 20% of chemists are crazy from this, so, maybe the philologists need something stronger?
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no flammable means to burn easy N Inflammable means to not burn easily
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Because Mr. Webster made a mistake.
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