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俚语 enflammable
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Enflammable

1. Enable to flame. Burns readily in air.

2. A replacement for the word inflammable (Which makes little sense because "in" is sometimes negative as in "inability, inadequate, indecent, inoffensive, insane, incapable, infertile")

3. An example of a new word that uses a En- for a positive prefix and Im- for a negative one so to preserve in- prefixes for neutral words and things that suggest Inside like "incognito, injection "
"Inflamable means flamable? What a country.

A:Hair spray is Enflammable.
B: Don't you mean inflamable
A: No because En is the new positive prefix for In, and Im is the new negative prefix. Join the cause to make English make sense dude.
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