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people getting on my case about "irregardless"

snowbullsnowbull
edited 2011-02-28 23:00:37 in General
Cue-bey
Look, I have nothing against neologisms, they're fine. I have nothing against weird words that nobody has ever used, like agreeance. Me hating "irregardless" is not about me being a prescriptivist. it has everything to do with me being against the fall of all that is good and holy.

Comments

  • DonZabuDonZabu
    It's a meaningless double negative. Simple as that.
  • GelzoGelzo
    Pony Sleuth
    I, too, have non-prescriptivist hate for the word.
  • DonZabuDonZabu
    My thinking brain takes the descriptivist "it's wrong for practical reasons" approach, but my non-thinking brain takes the "people who use it are uneducated simpletons" approach.
  • snowbullsnowbull
    Cue-bey
    I can really feel the end of civilization as we know it when someone I consider intelligent and knowledgeable using it unironically.

    semi related: the death of irony
  • GelzoGelzo
    Pony Sleuth
    There's nothing really wrong with double negatives. They exist in some languages and some dialects of English. My beef with "irregardless" is that it's less clear and elegant than the perfectly serviceable (and shorter) "regardless."

    However, I will say it is fun to say "irregardless" ironically.

    /hipster
  • TnopheliaTnophelia
    irregardless I think that way too.
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