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Re:“I worked at Boeing for about 1.5 years in the 2008-9 tim... by chrisseaton on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @06:13AM (#19672388)
'Evitable' means 'avoidable'. 'Inevitable' means 'not avoidable'. They mean the opposite, which is what you'd expect.

It's nothing like 'inflammable' and 'flammable', which mean the same thing. Those two have different roots which is why there is confusion.

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