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The Journal of Psychiatric Nomenclature endorses the phrase Just Plain Nuts.
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The word pissed is used in the UK to signify drunk, whereas it means angry in the US. For angry, in the UK, we would use 'pissed off'.In QC it depends upon the way you use it. I got pissed on Saturday = drunk I am so pissed (straight upset face) = angry I am so pissed (goofy grin) = drunk I am pissed off = angry Piss off as an expletive means f**k off Piss off as a verb means you made somebody angry Piss off the bridge = guys showing off again 
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nflammable and flammable are still synonyms where I come from
Pet peeve of my mom's who says they came up with "flammable" because people thought "inflammable" meant "not flammable." [bad pun intentionally omitted]
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[bad pun intentionally omitted]
Don't EVER do that again.
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Bel, you had the post about the difference between pissed on and pissed off-- but do you know why piss is yellow and "cum" is white? So a drunk (or substitute ethic group of choice) will know whether he is coming or going... and curiously-- in Japanese-- one uses Going as the term for an organism, and coming as the term for uninations-- proving that in japan a western doesn't understand anything and never knows whether he is coming or going! and in french--my meager french allows me to count to 5, and say "in the name of the Father, the son,and the Holy Ghost, Amen-- Hail Mary... i mangle the days of the week, and months of year.... and certainly don't know any street slang--So do french men come-- or go (or rather in which room do they come or go!) Or would you rather not say? 
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who says they came up with "flammable" because people thought "inflammable" meant "not flammable."
The Oxford Concise English Grammar gives the same explanation for the origin of "flammable", and adds that this linguistic faux pas is redeemed by its usefulness in potentially dangerous situations.
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In reply to:
So do french men come-- or go
No idea, but Indonesian men keluar which means exit, come out, or go out according to context(it's a compound literally meaning "to the outside").
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So do french men come-- or go (or rather in which room do they come or go!) Or would you rather not say?Given that they allegedly undergo 'the little death', I'd say they were going, going... gong!  cheer the sunshine warrior
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Flammable/Inflammable
The International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code, which is the Bible for the transport by sea of hazardous materials, begins the section on flammable materials like this:
"CLASS 3 - FLAMMABLE Liquids
1. PROPERTIES
Definition of flammable* liquids
[footnote] *"Inflammable" has the same meaning as "flammable".
Since the IMDG regulates all oceangoing transport of hazardous goods, and matters of very large import and many millions of dollars hang on its provisions, they take no chances on anyone not knowing about either of the two expresssions which mean the same thing. This is, of course, the way lawyers use language.
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the way lawyers use language... using two words - going back to the fine old Medieval days when clerks charged by the word and the length of the word 
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