Re: Our language

Subject: Re: Our language
From: Debbie Molinaro <debbiem -at- UCS -dot- NET>
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 09:42:39 -0400

Kinda like what infamous does to famous (but different). Ya gotta love our
language!

- Deb

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> From: John Fulton <jfulton -at- LSI-DSP -dot- CO -dot- UK>
>
> sfarmh1 -at- SCFN -dot- THPL -dot- LIB -dot- FL -dot- US wrote:
>
> >In a recent post, it was written that something was
> >''invaluable.''
> >While the poster's English is correct (no flame, this), the
> >ENGLISH rings false - INvaluable? Why not ''valuable?''
>
> [snip]
>
> >INvaluable --in this scrivener's opinion-- ought'a
> >be relegated to the same scrap heap as inflammable -- along
> >with some other words I'm certain can be added by other
> >techwr-l subscribers.
>
> "Valuable" and "invaluable" have subtly different meanings.
>
> "Valuable" means "having intrinsic value".
>
> "Invaluable" means "valuable to a high degree" - like "priceless", it has
> the sense that it is of so much worth you can't put a value on it.
>

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