ColMy paper airplane wouldn't fly, it was just stationary.
Da_Gut
NormanDunbar@kibcol1049 Now that's the sort of joke that gets the grammar police confused. It's paper so it must be stationery, but it's not moving so it's stationary!
It could keep them going in circles for hours! 😄
@kibcol1049 It would be fun to watch! 😄
DaveThe grammar police in some parts of the world might take exception at "airplane" too. 😄
@TheLancashireman @kibcol1049 That's true also. 😐
Peter 💙 Stevens@TheLancashireman @NormanDunbar @kibcol1049
Surely that's a perfectly good word?
@PhilthyPierre @TheLancashireman @kibcol1049 Some might say that it should be "aeroplane".
The same sort of folk who get upset by "train station" instead of "railway station" 😉
@NormanDunbar @PhilthyPierre @TheLancashireman Word meanings don't make a lot of sense, with many rules that have exceptions. For example flammable and inflammable. They sound contrary but actually mean exactly the same.
@kibcol1049 @PhilthyPierre @TheLancashireman True.
I can be disgruntled about something, but never gruntled!
@NormanDunbar @kibcol1049 @PhilthyPierre
Overwhelmed, but not underwhelmed or even merely whelmed.
Nils, DC4AC@TheLancashireman @NormanDunbar @kibcol1049 @PhilthyPierre
I think I understand.
Well, at least I don't overstand.
I think I understand.
Well, at least I don't overstand.
Court Cantrell does not comply@DC4AC @TheLancashireman @NormanDunbar @kibcol1049 @PhilthyPierre
I wonder what it would be like to instand.
Sibrosan
@NormanDunbar @PhilthyPierre @TheLancashireman I'm often disgusted, but only once was I gusted. What a night that was! 🤭😂
@kibcol1049 @NormanDunbar @PhilthyPierre
There doesn't even seem to be a word for "not flammable"
@NormanDunbar @TheLancashireman @PhilthyPierre anti-inflamable? I'm making words up now. Mind you, thats how language evolved I suppose. Ha ha.
Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴♂️📷 🗺️@TheLancashireman @kibcol1049 @NormanDunbar @PhilthyPierre
following the English language precedents of adequate/inadequate, decisive/indecisive, operative/inoperative. then inflammable should be the word - OOPSIE - we just put that one in there because the English language might be about rules but it is even more about exceptions.
@the5thColumnist @TheLancashireman @kibcol1049 @PhilthyPierre I before E, except after C. Apparently, is no longer taught in schools because more words are exceptions than follow the rule.
Weird!😉
@NormanDunbar @the5thColumnist @kibcol1049 @PhilthyPierre
The rule is quite simple: I before E, except when it isn't.
English is a language with one rule and 13,056,934,126 exceptions.
Disclaimer: I invented that number 😂
woollypigs
Larry
Paul Martin@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] What about Chlorine trifluoride?
@nowster @TheLancashireman @kibcol1049 @NormanDunbar @PhilthyPierre
OH yes. There was a speculation in the 'Graydon's Commonweal' discussion about what Blossom flung at the Wall that burned it. The consensus was FOOF but there were other candidates.
OH yes. There was a speculation in the 'Graydon's Commonweal' discussion about what Blossom flung at the Wall that burned it. The consensus was FOOF but there were other candidates.
HighlandLawyer@TheLancashireman @kibcol1049 @NormanDunbar @PhilthyPierre
Uninflammable or incombustible. But yes, English language is decidely unintuitive.
Uninflammable or incombustible. But yes, English language is decidely unintuitive.
@kibcol1049 @NormanDunbar @PhilthyPierre @TheLancashireman
As do ravel and unravel.
@PhilthyPierre @NormanDunbar @kibcol1049
It is a good word.
And don't call me Shirley! 😜
rood@kibcol1049 you're giving it the wrong gas! Too much air is bad stoichiometry.
ArapallaI hear the design company folded.
Not a Spring OnionThree part flyers so bad they will simply drop to the floor.
Maj1 THE Neuro Spicy Squirrel@kibcol1049 Morning Col 👋😊
My kinda transport! 😁
@kibcol1049 *crumples in laughter*
@kibcol1049 @MAJ1 Was that Origami Airlines?
@NormanDunbar @kibcol1049 Nah they got pulped!
sam 
GinevraCat@kibcol1049 @boby_biq Nooooooooo😱. Also, saving that one.
PaulNickson 🕊️🎛️🎼@kibcol1049 Stationary stationery.
banderkat@kibcol1049 no matter how hard you push the envelope, it will still be stationery