The Least Worst Of straddles a line between the two, as it mostly offers up alternate versions of past material, with a few rarer or exclusive tracks in the mix as well.Ī significant chunk of this album's running time is devoted to edited versions of songs we've heard before, that have either been released as b-sides or are unique to this album. At best this sort of release compiles rarities such as demos, b-sides and outtakes and if pulled off correctly can function as unique albums in their own right while at worst they have nothing new on them at all and instead present material that has already been heard before on past albums. This compilation released about a year after World Coming Down is a bit of an odd beast, as far as compilations go. As this means the unedited version has more new material, this is the one I recommend.) If the distinction continues to prove elusive, you can always try to remember that the noun form of infamous is infamy, which has no pleasant connotations, and which was immortalized in our language with its use by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt when he gave a speech referring to the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor as “a date which will live in infamy.(Note: I am reviewing the unedited version of the album, which features 'It's Never Enough' as track 4 and 'Unsuccessfully Coping with the Natural Beauty of Infidelity' as its penultimate track, with the edited version swapping the latter for 'Gravitational Constant: G = 6.67 x 10⁻⁸ cm⁻³ gm⁻¹ sec⁻²' and dropping the former altogether. You do not actually have to be famous to be infamous, although we are unlikely to see this latter word applied to a person who is little-known, inconspicuous, or who has not achieved at least some degree of notoriety. Infamous contains the version of in- which implies negation, although it does not actually mean “not famous.” And in a final confusing twist, it can also serve as an intensifier, meaning “thoroughly” (which is possibly why so many people think infamous means “very famous”). It can mean “not,” ( inconclusive), and it can also mean “inward, into, toward” (as in implode or irradicate). It can take the forms of il-, im-, or ir-, in addition to in-, depending on what letter it precedes. The prefix we are concerned with here ( in-) can have a variety of both meanings and forms. There is a perfectly valid reason for why so many apparently opposite words have the same, or almost the same, meaning, and it has to do with the role played by one of our prefixes. Why must this be so? Was the English language actually created by a cruel and vengeful god, or was it perhaps all put together in a single afternoon by a committee of unlearned and bickering idiots? No, neither of these theories, so far as we can tell, have much evidence to support them. The definition of unthaw is “thaw.” Similarly, unloosen is pretty much identical to loosen, invaluable and valuable are much more synonyms than antonyms, and to really muddy the waters we can bring up the issue of flammable and inflammable. Now let’s move on to another question: if the word thaw means “to stop being frozen” what does the word unthaw mean? If you guessed something along the lines of “to make something frozen,” well, hang your head in shame and befuddlement. The word lock means “to fasten (something) with a lock.” So what does the word unlock mean? If you guessed “to unfasten the lock of” pat yourself on the back. Here are a few ways that things which look simple in English are decidedly not so. It’s all very simple isn’t it? No, it is not. One of these words means one thing, and the other word means something else.
Famous typically carries the meaning of “widely known,” and is often used in a positive manner infamous, on the other hand, has a negative set of meanings, such as “having a reputation of the worst kind” or “causing or bringing infamy.”
Yes, famous and infamous have some similarities (both words are descended from the Latin fama, meaning “fame,” and both often have to do with being well-known), but they have decidedly different meanings. The 'in' in 'infamous' implies negation, but 'infamous' means “having a reputation of the worst kind," not "not famous." Origin of Famous and Infamous Don't be confused by the prefix: 'in' at the beginning of the word can have any one of several meanings.
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