Writer's Circle: Its official irregardless of how you feel its a word

[playahaitian]

 

[sammyjax]

I hate it here

 

[playahaitian]

Hope this helps

I hate it here

 

[Rembrandt Brown]

Webster/Rembrandt

 

[sammyjax]

Hope this helps

It does!

 

[playahaitian]

It does!

#bgolbrotherhood

 

[vertigo]

I love that the definition of irregardless is..... "regardless".

The only people that I've ever heard use it were folks who were trying to sound smart....

 

[bgbtylvr]

One of my favorites.

 

[respiration]

Good grief

 

[playahaitian]

I love that the definition of irregardless is..... "regardless".

The only people that I've ever heard use it were folks who were trying to sound smart....

Ok i gotta be honest

Since i was literature in college ages ago

All this is NOT new

Even back then it was becoming acceptable and if you really research academics just started relenting

Modern language is amazing

Go back to baseball

When the steroid thing was big

Andy a pitcher on the yankees kinda snitched on an9ther pitcher roger Clemens

And the public statement roger said he "misremembered"

For WEEKS they clowned him saying that he was stupid and made up a word

I was always confused cause it IS a word

And on the real quiet and humble all these gasbag sports heads backed off and had the nerve to start using it

Don't let me start on stephen a smith

Point is English language is a living thing

And even if its for humor? It has BECOME an acceptable word.

Now as a parent and educator and writer?

THAT is a bigger more complex debate

But irregardless...

We must accept the outcome.

 

[swoop1]

 

[Complex]

Didn't they make conversate a word also?

 

[sammyjax]

Didn't they make conversate a word also?

More linguistic fuckassery

 

[vertigo]

Ok i gotta be honest

Since i was literature in college ages ago

All this is NOT new

Even back then it was becoming acceptable and if you really research academics just started relenting

Modern language is amazing

Go back to baseball

When the steroid thing was big

Andy a pitcher on the yankees kinda snitched on an9ther pitcher roger Clemens

And the public statement roger said he "misremembered"

For WEEKS they clowned him saying that he was stupid and made up a word

I was always confused cause it IS a word

And on the real quiet and humble all these gasbag sports heads backed off and had the nerve to start using it

Don't let me start on stephen a smith

Point is English language is a living thing

And even if its for humor? It has BECOME an acceptable word.

Now as a parent and educator and writer?

THAT is a bigger more complex debate

But irregardless...

We must accept the outcome.

I agree with you 1000%.

I am not the grammar warrior I used to be after listening to a radio talk show.

Callers loved get on the radio and whine about how they can't stand it when someone says "nuculear" instead of nuclear and other mispronunciations of that nature.

The guest on the show, a linguist, calmly explained exactly your point- that our language is a living, breathing thing- that sometimes the pronunciations we so steadfastly defend are they themselves bastardizations or mispronunciations... and finally that slang (using one word to represent another) and mispronunciation is how the Latin language became French- became Spanish, became English- and others.

It was fascinating and really changed my attitude about it all- The purpose of language is to communicate ideas. as long as I can understand what someone is communicating to me, even though my hackles may rise a little, I don't worry so much about the particular words used.


That said, I still laughed because the definition of REGARDLESS is;

"without paying attention to the present situation; despite the prevailing circumstances."

and the definition of IRREGARDLESS, which people use interchangeably, instead of using the same definition, they said; " Um, please see item 1".

 

[playahaitian]

I agree with you 1000%.

I am not the grammar warrior I used to be after listening to a radio talk show.

Callers loved get on the radio and whine about how they can't stand it when someone says "nuculear" instead of nuclear and other mispronunciations of that nature.

The guest on the show, a linguist, calmly explained exactly your point- that our language is a living, breathing thing- that sometimes the pronunciations we so steadfastly defend are they themselves bastardizations or mispronunciations... and finally that slang (using one word to represent another) and mispronunciation is how the Latin language became French- became Spanish, became English- and others.

It was fascinating and really changed my attitude about it all- The purpose of language is to communicate ideas. as long as I can understand what someone is communicating to me, I don't worry so much about the particular words used.


That said, I still laughed because the definition of REGARDLESS is;

"without paying attention to the present situation; despite the prevailing circumstances."

and the definition of IRREGARDLESS, which people use interchangeably, instead of using the same definition, they said; " Um, please see item 1".

Its wonderful that we get to conversate like this

 

[playahaitian]

I really can't get mad about this

Because what Stephen A Smith does to the modern English language for 2 hours every damn day

Should be considered crimes against humanity itself.

That man uses word crutches like a paraplegic.

 

[carsun1000]

Irregardless of this, we're still regarded as people who have problems with others in regards to how we regard others....

 

[EchoCrash]

Hope this helps

Crisse lawd.

 

[sammyjax]

I agree with you 1000%.

I am not the grammar warrior I used to be after listening to a radio talk show.

Callers loved get on the radio and whine about how they can't stand it when someone says "nuculear" instead of nuclear and other mispronunciations of that nature.

The guest on the show, a linguist, calmly explained exactly your point- that our language is a living, breathing thing- that sometimes the pronunciations we so steadfastly defend are they themselves bastardizations or mispronunciations... and finally that slang (using one word to represent another) and mispronunciation is how the Latin language became French- became Spanish, became English- and others.

It was fascinating and really changed my attitude about it all- The purpose of language is to communicate ideas. as long as I can understand what someone is communicating to me, even though my hackles may rise a little, I don't worry so much about the particular words used.


That said, I still laughed because the definition of REGARDLESS is;

"without paying attention to the present situation; despite the prevailing circumstances."

and the definition of IRREGARDLESS, which people use interchangeably, instead of using the same definition, they said; " Um, please see item 1".

My nigga said his hackles may rise.