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Old 11-20-2011, 12:18 PM   #1
Trilby
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Originally Posted by BigV View Post
more stuff I don't know, regarding prefixes.

flammable and inflammable. What? Also, privation and deprivation? Why aren't these pairs opposites?
Because English is a lying, thieving, whoring language?

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