"Irregardless?" Topic

1. Love it
2. Hate it
3. Over-Redundant

What?

Reminds me of John Hill's rules for CGC boardgames in the early 70s.

All the best,

John.

5.

Rick

For all intensive purposes….

6. I couldn't care less.

7. I could care less.

Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong! It grates on the ears and is an abomination to the orderly mind (not mine, mind you.

Irregardless, I'm surprised Mister Proper Apostrophe Usage could care less! :-)

8. I use regardless as irregardless is bad form.

As long as it gets the point acrossed.

"I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

It's fine, as long as you don't mind sounding like Paulie Walnuts.

I could of sworn we was just talking about this the other day at home.

9. Its used alot in speach and writting so must be exceptable

I'm cofused OFM, don't they both mean the same thing?

Not a wargamer.

Disregardful

As an educator I used to automatically react, "nonsense word!" when I would hear it. Then I responded to the wrong administrator and learned my place.

But what obscure thread does this come from?

10) Needs more beer.

10) Needs more beer

…and boobies.

Don't make me axe you again to stop the tomfoolery!

11. Some people like their cucumbers pickled.

10 Needs more Beer.

Whatever.

Oh, my filesystemchecking ghod, this is a pet peeve of mine. I'd suggest adding:

12) Should be a flogging offense.

1. The joy of the language is, of course, that if we just keep using it, it *will* become official. (See also: inflammable/flammable.)

It's like scale creep or the 28mm scale. Might as well embrace it, because it's here to say. New world order.

I just watched the first episode of Band of Brothers and Captain Sobel used "irregardless" in a conversation with Winters just before the court martial incident. Weird.

In fact, most assuredly, KB!

13) Not a word.
-Kle.

Per dictionary .com

ir·re·gard·less
   [ir-i-gahrd-lis]
–adverb Nonstandard .
regardless.
Origin:
1910–15; ir-2 (probably after irrespective ) + regardless

—Can be confused:  irregardless, regardless (see usage note at the current entry ).

—Usage note
Irregardless is considered nonstandard because of the two negative elements ir- and -less. It was probably formed on the analogy of such words as irrespective, irrelevant, and irreparable. Those who use it, including on occasion educated speakers, may do so from a desire to add emphasis. Irregardless first appeared in the early 20th century and was perhaps popularized by its use in a comic radio program of the 1930s.

"Irregardless". Colloquial word but in such common use as to merit a dictionary entry. Construction is a double negative but definition is commonly understood as a single negative, so it means the same as "regardless".

Most commonly used unconsciously in conversation when "regardless" was meant; sometimes the choice is deliberate to express emphasis, e.g., with the same meaning as "especially regardless".

Sometimes used deliberately as an ironic characterization to portray pretended education. A similar example is when a cartoon character says "what a maroon" to call someone stupid. (This use is subtle and often misunderstood by the subject of the characterization.)

It is worth pointing out that since "irregardless" is well-understood to only have one definition, its use is never ambiguous, despite being irregular. So the practice of interrupting a speaker to dispute their use of this word cannot be justified on the basis of clarity. Rationalizations in this direction are transparently disingenous, usually covering up pretensions of superiority or another need for attention.

In other words, regardless of my use of "irregardless", it is rude to interrupt me! ;)

Were it a flammable word I word burn it, alas it is inflammable.

EDIT> Awwww I just saw that someone pointed this out.
Sad now.

How about unregardless? Or unregardful?

Would those be doubleplusungood?

Not correct, that's unpossible! It's a perfectly cromulent word.

No such word.

This is just an example of whateverdom. It has unsignificantion written all over it.