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

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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 3 months ago

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

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