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Re:How to Spot a Spook (1974) by xkcd-sucks on Sunday May 14, 2017 @10:03PM (#14338650)
Outside of formally defined abstract systems, "invariant" almost always means "usual"
Re:How to Spot a Spook (1974) by nonbel on Monday May 15, 2017 @08:05AM (#14340908)
I am a native English speaker and have never heard someone use "unchangeable" or "invariable" to mean anything other than the correct meaning: "not variable; not changing or capable of being changed; static or constant."
Re:How to Spot a Spook (1974) by vorg on Monday May 15, 2017 @06:12AM (#14340415)
And "impossible" means "difficult". I believe this feature of natural language is called hyperbole, and its study is part of the Linguistics subfield of Pragmatics.