Am I the only one that finds it weird that in English: "your disability got worse" and "your ability got worse" mean the same thing even though the words disability and ability effectively means the opposite thing, ie. Are antonyms.
Am I the only one that finds it weird that in English: "your disability got worse" and "your ability got worse" mean the same thing even though the words disability and ability effectively means the opposite thing, ie. Are antonyms.
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Lembot_0001@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 1y
dcoe@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
“Ability” and”disability” aren’t opposites. The ability to climb stairs would be lost given the disability of having no legs.
My ability to climb stairs would get worse as I aged. My disability would get worse if I only had one leg and lost a second.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
Also inflammable is NOT the opposite of flammable.
I’ll see myself out…
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 1y
Now flammable and inflammable...
frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contronym