08-26-2018, 08:37 PM | #91 |
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Re: The continuing life of the GURPS WWII line
Hi all!
Bet you never thought this forum post session would ever be used again..... Well, with E23 now becoming W23, and a trickle of digital only (booklets?) printings, I thought it just might be possible to reinvent this entire line for 4th Ed, and re-submit it to just be e-published. I realize that it might not be possible to get ahold of a few of the old authors, but I feel as though a good entire European Theater =and= a good entire Pacicic theater (which we never saw) might now be more possible. #1) I'd buy them. #2) Heck, I could probably write a few..... Bruce Gray MIB # 2150
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08-26-2018, 10:51 PM | #92 | |
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Re: The continuing life of the GURPS WWII line
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It's been making the rounds for the last decade or two as an imponderable: "Why do inflammable and flammable mean the same?" The problem with that imponderable is that they don't mean the same and never have. Imflammable and flammable, on the other hand, are synonyms and vehicles carrying flammable substances, such as gasoline, used to carry signs saying "imflammable." They were a common sight in southern Ontario through to the mid-1960s. A couple of years later the signage had changed to the less easily mistaken "flammable." But it seems imflammable and inflammable have been conflated in the popular mind. |
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08-26-2018, 11:06 PM | #93 | |
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Re: The continuing life of the GURPS WWII line
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http://mentalfloss.com/article/61201...ean-same-thing
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08-27-2018, 06:13 AM | #94 |
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Re: The continuing life of the GURPS WWII line
Merriam-Webster has a nice description of the etymology of "inflammable" and "flammable", explaining why they do mean the same thing. "Inflammable" is not actually the word "flammable" plus the prefix "in-" to invert it.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word...or-inflammable They suggest "nonflammable" for "doesn't burn easily". |
08-27-2018, 03:05 PM | #95 |
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Location: France
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Re: The continuing life of the GURPS WWII line
In French, we have "inflammable" (flammable or inflammable) and "ininflammable" (non-flammable or flame-proof).
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