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Reply With QuoteI feel like my eardrums are going to burst when I hear the word "irregardless"
It has been used to much that it is legitimized in language now, I think. But still - it's like some jumbled of mess between "regardless" and "irrespective."
Ick.
I'm beginning to think that over half of Americans spells the opposite of "win" "loose".
I feel like my eardrums are going to burst when I hear the word "irregardless"
It has been used to much that it is legitimized in language now, I think. But still - it's like some jumbled of mess between "regardless" and "irrespective."
Ick.
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ever see the American Dad episode when Steve laughs at Stan for using the word "irregardless"?I feel like my eardrums are going to burst when I hear the word "irregardless"
Stan: You can't talk to me like that. Irregardless of what you think of me, I'm still your father.
Steve: "Irregardless"? That's not even a real word. You're affixing the negative prefix "ir" to "regardless", but as "regardless" is already negative, it's a logical absurdity.
Stan: I have half a mind to...
Steve: There he goes exaggerating again.
I talk just like Steve lol..."already a negative, its a logical absurdity"...I will have to use that on somebody one day cause it is exactly the type of thing I would say to someone who is annoying me with that type of subject.
There are those who believe that dictionaries should not merely reflect the times but also protect English from the mindless assaults of the trendy.
Threw/through
Bought/Brought
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Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow. - Mary Anne Radmacher
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My peeves...
Prolly,
posed, it should be supposed,
axe, asked-
wiff- with-
birfday- birthday-
suposdly- supposedly-
A lot of words that people in the USA should know and are taught in school, but are just slackers... AARRRGGGHHHH!!!!!!!
Phrases;
Down the road- Just Where down the road and What road??
Most of it comes from supposedly college graduates. It irks me so bad, I generally walk off letting them talk to themselves. My wife's language drives me nuts! Bachelors degree in Home Economics from Kirksville Mo- Truman University.
lol I can attest to College grad talk. We slack with our own lingo, but it disappears the second we have to get into actual academic mode (those of us who actually care that is). Outside of the classroom or workplace we are a big bunch of lazy bums haha.
I found a new word that has popped up at work with clients and their requests which makes me go arrggg....initiate is not inniciate. No C, no double N. It is initiate, broken down it sounds like this when pronounced: ih-nish-ee-ate. Not: inn-eye-see-ate because that is how "inniciate" is pronouced when you break it down...in-eye-see-ate. Wrong.
There are those who believe that dictionaries should not merely reflect the times but also protect English from the mindless assaults of the trendy.
The current word that really gets me... AMAZING, it's simply overused. It's amazing how amazing that amazing is amazingly overused, it truly is amazing. Rofl-
My all time fav... supposibly instead of supposedly. That one really grates my last nerve.
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