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Trombone  ·  3052 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Bizarro World

Irregardless of the sense of doom that article is exuding, what a great song. Although if we're going for songs of the end times, these also deserve consideration:





goobster  ·  3051 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Irregardless?

I mean...

IRREGARDLESS?!?!?

Really?!?

Please do not ever use this non-existent word again, or I shall smite thee with a dictionary of weighty proportions. And I'll smite you with the pointy bit. The corner. Hard. Pointy. Jab jab jab.

Trombone  ·  3051 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm afraid the smiting spree may have to wait for another day...

    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.
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A weird word to use? Yes. But is it a word that exists in the english language? Also yes. Let us cease this comminatory argle-bargle or it'll give me a bout of coprolalia.