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![]() DSK wrote: DSK wrote: This is why Navvie was so sure that *no* dinghy could be sailed in 30+ knot winds. Navigator wrote: Unmanageable does not mean can't be sailed. Look it up. Look it up where? OED: Incapable of being properly or conveniently handled or manipulated. 1658 PHILLIPS, Immanity,..such a hugenesse as renders a thing unmanageable. 1779 Phil. Trans. LXIX. 422 It required an index of an unmanageable length. 1805 in Nicolas Disp. Nelson (1846) VII. 166 So that the Ship was entirely unmanageable. Note the last example... But other than that, you're right. I apologize, the two terms should be kept seperate. A maybe subtle difference but important I feel. Cheers |
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