2007-04-05 03:22:56 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Family & Relationships ➔ Singles & Dating
they dont they are opposites
2007-04-05 03:25:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 6⤋
I can not believe how illiterate people on Y/A are. IN-flammable and flammable do mean the same thing. Duh!!
Inflammable has the prefix "in" before the word, which was used many many years ago. It stems from Latin.
Obviously since people are so illiterate, they have started to use the word "flammable" as a warning.
2007-04-13 03:23:09 · answer #2 · answered by michelebaruch 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Inflammable is the older word by about 200 years. Flammable now has certain technical uses, particularly as a warning on vehicles carrying combustible materials, because of a belief that some might interpret the intensive prefix "in" of inflammable as a negative prefix and thus think the word means “noncombustible.” Inflammable is the word more usually used in nontechnical and figurative contexts. I find it quite disturbing that some people on here think inflammable means its non-flammable. You get a star from me for raising the point!
2007-04-05 03:29:18 · answer #3 · answered by beanie 5 · 6⤊ 2⤋
Dr. Nick Riviera (The Simpsons) pondered that same question years ago after a firecracker explodes a can marked INFLAMMABLE. "Inflammable means flammable?! Boy, what a country."
2016-03-29 00:52:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The original term was inflammable - but a couple decades ago, ppl began noticing that that sounded a lot like fireproof, so they changed it to flammable. It's a headache for the fire service too.
2007-04-05 03:26:26 · answer #5 · answered by All hat 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Not quite. Flammable is only about fire. Inflammable also means excitable.
2007-04-05 03:27:59 · answer #6 · answered by Barbara Doll to you 7 · 1⤊ 5⤋
Some one decided they are the same.
2007-04-11 08:09:16 · answer #7 · answered by Ollie 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I do not know why, but it does have the same meaning.
2007-04-12 22:06:34 · answer #8 · answered by abonoyah 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not too sure. Nice food for thought though.
2007-04-13 01:59:18 · answer #9 · answered by AskQns 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Thats a very good question. I dont know. just wanted to say good question. Have a Star.
2007-04-05 03:25:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
hmmm good point, ask a fireman
2007-04-13 03:31:37 · answer #11 · answered by wongfiehung2003 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋