We all use them, like innocent or innocuous. But what about nocent meaning guilty and nocuous = harmful? Or a well-dressed person. Are they hevelled (dishevelled - dis)? Is a happy person gruntled? Is a flat road dulating or unundulating? If we have interested, uninterested and disinterested, can we have sane, insane and desane? Why do we desalinate water? Shouldn't we unsalinate it, since we didn't salinate it in the first place??
i've salinated water before. my mom used to insist it was the cure for a sore throat. since i guess we couldn't afford cough drops back then.
i stopped getting undressed and started dedressing years ago also....if the thread gets better will it be untarded?
I wish I could unscind this thread. It's becoming less and less iculous, and more and more nonsensible, with every passing subminute.
sounds like it would be to make someone insane. instead of "you're driving me crazy" you could say "you're desaning me."
ah, i see. i thought he meant like disinterested as opposed to interested and uninterested, so, like, impartial. which i guess would translate over as being neither sane nor insane, but somewhere in the middle.
some of these odd root words do live in the 13+ volume oxfrord standard english dictionary, or whatever it is actually called.
