Screwy English - Part 1

Just so the Japanese don’t feel like I’m picking on them in my “Best Japanese Words Ever” series, here’s an example of English that boggles my mind.

While you would think the word “forgetive” would mean something like “likely to forget,” it in fact means “inventive.” What the fuck, English?

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