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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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English is such a peach. (lemmy.ca)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts

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It's bullshit that the opposite of "impeachable" is "unimpeachable" instead of "peachable"

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[–] Prking 42 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It’s because the im isn’t a prefix but part of the word. (It was originally spelt empeche)

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Ackshully:

Looking at the etymology, impeach is from old-french "empecher", and "em" was an alternative form of the old-french prefix "en".

And "empecher" is itself is derived from the late latin "impedicare", which uses the Latin prefix "im" from which the French prefix comes. And is prefixed to "predica".

So it it is a prefix.

Of course, the latin (and French) prefixes aren't used to indicate opposite meaning, like "in" often is. But that's just yet more bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

It’s basically from back in the day when there were still dinosaur peaches large enough to contain a badly-behaving consul.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

To be fair it was a prefix in the Latin word that it's ultimately derived from. We still treat it a little like a prefix when we use the im- part of the related "import" like a prefix, as we also have "export" and "transport"