English is such a peach.

PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 222 points –

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

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It's bullshit that the opposite of "important" is "unimportant" instead of "portant"

And "portant" to me sounds very similar to urgent which would make important a better negative / opposite.