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It means it gives the illusion of being locked, until an Israeli tech company plugs into it and unlocks it for the cops.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-tech-company-says-it-can-break-into-all-iphones-ever-made-some-androids/

Yes

For me, personally.. it means able to be unlocked. If I want to say the other thing, I say "it doesn't lock."

*None-lockable

I'm pretty sure one of those has a hyphen

You are able to undo the locking. It's almost like reading comprehension is shit nowadays.

Yes.

Now I'm trying to think of a circumstance where something can be unlocked but not relocked. Like in a game you can just make a new account and achievements are relocked.

Why would unlockable mean able to be unlocked?

If you can't unlock it, is it really a lock?

@The_Picard_Maneuver You know we are... every rule gets a 'but maybe', 'except for when', 'never mind, nothing means what you think and everything means something AND nothing at all but also whatever you want it to mean.'

Nothing is unlockable with the right epoxy.

I don't think I've ever used the word "unlockable".

"The closet doors in my house don't have locks", is probably what I'd say.

Can we discern via stress?
UNlockable - can be opened.
unLOCKable - cannot be locked

Unlockable = can’t be locked

Unopenable = can’t be opened

Locks should always be able to be reversed. Locking something is restricting access, not denying it entirely. You don't weld a door shut and call it locked.

Poe didn't write a tale about Fortunato being locked downstairs.

"Sealed", "buried", "entombed", "immured" - all perfectly good terms for closing access to something with the intent of the closure being permanent.

Depends on the cawntex

Both definitions refer to the same thing, right? A locked lock is unlockable. It cannot be locked further, AND it can be unlocked.

Vice versa for the unlocked lock.

I would say "un" implies a reversal of some state. More clear would be "not lockable", so most people would use this. Unlockable is much more likely to mean able to reverse the state of being locked.

both, but not at the same time. words change meaning with context. thats why there often are several definitions of a single word.

Back in like 1st or 2nd grade the teacher introduced us to context clues for reading comprehension.

It's the same thing with “unsweet,” which has apparently become the universal term at food establishments when you want unsweetened tea. I’m in the American South, so I encounter this constantly.

But what the hell is “unsweet”? What does that even mean? Did they sweeten it and then somehow take the sweetness back out? Was it accomplished through evaporation? Reverse osmosis? Some sort of industrial-scale anti-sugar process?

“Unsweet” isn't a word.

So when I order, I specifically say, “unsweetened tea,” and the server inevitably responds, “Unsweet?”

“Gotcha.”

No. You got nothing. I said unsweetened.