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Re:The United States Redrawn as Fifty States with Equal Popu... by tbrownaw on Thursday February 14, 2013 @04:22PM (#5222425)
I'd always though that "flammable" means "not hard to set on fire" while "inflammable" is closer to "really, extremely, absurdly easy to set on fire".
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Re:The United States Redrawn as Fifty States with Equal Popu... by yakiv on Thursday February 14, 2013 @06:38PM (#5223367)
From dictionary.com:

flammable: "easily set on fire; combustible; inflammable."

inflammable: "capable of being set on fire; combustible; flammable."

[Standard boilerplate about dictionaries being imperfect reflections of what words actually mean.]

[Perhaps less-standard boilerplate about how words can mean different things in different places.]

Whatever the nuances are, "inflammable" doesn't mean "fireproof", which is my main point.

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