[tor-relays] Doing the english [Was: Kitten1 and kitten2 compromised (guard/hs/fallback directory)]

[Ian Zimmerman <itz@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2017-05-20 18:07, Chris Kerr wrote:

> Yes, 'sensible', like 'actually' and 'eventually', is a "false friend"
> whose meaning in English is different from that in just about every
> other European language (but the other languages are consistent with
> each other e.g.  'sensible' in French and 'sensibel' in German have
> the same meaning), which sometimes leads to confusion. Even more
> confusingly, 'insensible' is not the opposite of 'sensible' but rather
> means either 'imperceptible' or 'unconscious'.

I have mused about this myself.  The most curious thing is that English
is not even consistent with itself here.  Think about the title of a
famous enlightenment era novel.  The meaning of the nouns is precisely
inverted from the adjectives.

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