GRAMMAR NAZIs Post:
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Originally Posted by SMSHCadet
Thank you very much for all your inputs which are invaluable to me and I have duly noted my grammer mistakes.
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Valuable means that the object can be valued (notice it is value+able), which has come to have the added conotation of it being worth a relatively large amount of money, but in the original sense, anything that has value set by the market is "valuable."
Invaluable means that it is not able to be valued. This can mean several things, from it is worth so much that assigning a value is meaningless or impossible, or that it is literally beyond value, such as people or some would say great works of art. Because valuable has come to mean that it is worth a substantial amount, invaluable has been used in the opposite meaning, that it is worth very little (the instances in the OED are from 1640, 1803, and 1865, so it is not very common today).
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Oxford English Dictionary
Point? Just say what you mean clearly.
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Originally Posted by Team Sergeant
Sorry, banging a weapons stock on a hollow tree and grunting does not count as communication.
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Ran that past an 18B he scoffed. He said, "duz two!"