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I hope my brother won't mind this, but I want to share with the friends who read my blog and strangers worldwide who came here on accident what kind of humor runs in my family:
"90% of the problems at work are fixed by either having the user restart their computer or quickly googling for the answer. It's kinda scary how invaluable google is.
Wait... is invaluable the word I am looking for? Inflammible means flammible! What a country!
But seriously, doesn't invaluable mean more than valuable? Like infamous means more than famous?
Or do I just use those wrong? You see, I'm not really smart."
Later:
Apparently in in latin means "not"
So invaluable means not that it has no value, but that it's value is calculatable. Because in that sense (in)valuable is not a description of the item, it's a description of the process of evaluating the item. So invaluable actually means inevalutionable
Infamous is trickier. "Causing or deserving infamy." But infamy must stem from infamous and not the other way around. "Having an exceedingly bad reputation; notorious" is better. But in this case it seems the "in" lends moral judgement to "famous" which makes no sense. So we need to figure out what the Latin "in" means. Because "un" means not. So what does "in" mean. The closest I can find for a prefix is in meaning "thoroughly." So infamous is thoroughly famous. Invaluable is thouroughly valuable.
But that makes no f'n sense. Here's better info: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=in-
So in actually means un which is also en (entangle). So unpossible is correct! Hmmmmmm. In means thoroughly and not and opposite of.
Inorganic means not organic
Invaluable means impossible to value
Infamous means the opposite of famous
Stupid english! And latin! ...
"90% of the problems at work are fixed by either having the user restart their computer or quickly googling for the answer. It's kinda scary how invaluable google is.
Wait... is invaluable the word I am looking for? Inflammible means flammible! What a country!
But seriously, doesn't invaluable mean more than valuable? Like infamous means more than famous?
Or do I just use those wrong? You see, I'm not really smart."
Later:
Apparently in in latin means "not"
So invaluable means not that it has no value, but that it's value is calculatable. Because in that sense (in)valuable is not a description of the item, it's a description of the process of evaluating the item. So invaluable actually means inevalutionable
Infamous is trickier. "Causing or deserving infamy." But infamy must stem from infamous and not the other way around. "Having an exceedingly bad reputation; notorious" is better. But in this case it seems the "in" lends moral judgement to "famous" which makes no sense. So we need to figure out what the Latin "in" means. Because "un" means not. So what does "in" mean. The closest I can find for a prefix is in meaning "thoroughly." So infamous is thoroughly famous. Invaluable is thouroughly valuable.
But that makes no f'n sense. Here's better info: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=in-
So in actually means un which is also en (entangle). So unpossible is correct! Hmmmmmm. In means thoroughly and not and opposite of.
Inorganic means not organic
Invaluable means impossible to value
Infamous means the opposite of famous
Stupid english! And latin! ...
