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Old 08-26-2018, 08:37 PM   #91
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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.....

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Old 08-26-2018, 10:51 PM   #92
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I did notice one amusing little typo on my skim - since when has helium been inflammable! (p106, the K-class Blimp).
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Inflammable means it doesn't burn (or, somewhat more accurately, doesn't burn well under normal conditions) and helium has not been noted as a substance that readily combusts under normal conditions so, always?

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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Old 08-26-2018, 11:06 PM   #93
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Inflammable means it doesn't burn (or, somewhat more accurately, doesn't burn well under normal conditions) and helium has not been noted as a substance that readily combusts under normal conditions so, always?
Not how I recall it andI looked it up just in case the USAF taught me wrong.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/61201...ean-same-thing
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Old 08-27-2018, 06:13 AM   #94
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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".
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Old 08-27-2018, 03:05 PM   #95
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In French, we have "inflammable" (flammable or inflammable) and "ininflammable" (non-flammable or flame-proof).
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