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vvvexation ([personal profile] vvvexation) wrote2011-09-07 02:55 pm
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Considerable amusement

Is the word "inconsiderable" ever used without a "not" in front of it?
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[identity profile] shutt3rg33k.livejournal.com 2011-09-07 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Inconceivable!

[identity profile] elgecko.livejournal.com 2011-09-08 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
You keep using that word. I don't' think it means what you think it means.

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(Congrats, you've had that said at you in accent by an actual Latino.)

[identity profile] veryloki.livejournal.com 2011-09-07 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Over time, it'll probably become a single word. A notinconsiderable word. Which doesn't mean quite the same thing as considerable.

[identity profile] vvvexation.livejournal.com 2011-09-08 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
Litotes is weird that way.

[identity profile] kcatalyst.livejournal.com 2011-09-08 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
Google suggests that at least in recent years, the answer is "mostly as a synonym/mix-up for inconsiderate".

[identity profile] vvvexation.livejournal.com 2011-09-08 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
*facepalm*

[identity profile] zwol.livejournal.com 2011-09-08 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
Only an inconsiderable number of times.

[identity profile] elgecko.livejournal.com 2011-09-08 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
That's not inconsistent with what I've seen of late.
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