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[Ashiri]

Veritable Quandry

Regardless Of What You Think, 'Irregardless' Is A Word

Grammarians are up in arms over dictionaries including "irregardless." The Merriam-Webster dictionary responds: "We do not make the English language, we merely record it."

www.npr.org

You’re probably already aware, but why not rub it in.

The definitions and notes in the dictionaries are worth reading. Where, exactly, is it commonly used? Any idea? (and don't saw the WoW forums! )

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Prescriptivists hate it. Descripivists accept it.

English is a mess of a language and it evolves in strange ways. I for one like that.

I'm a fan of "imregardless', myself.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

I'm a fan of "imregardless', myself.

I lean toward "ermahgerdless".

 

[detrius]

What about inverse non-irregardlessness?

 

[Sid]

I miss "Easy", "Great Future", "No worries" , "We hold all the cards" etc from the Tories.
What happened with that?

 

[Free]

What about inverse non-irregardlessness?

 

[Khamon]

What about inverse non-irregardlessness?

You’re suggesting that we reverse polarity on the irregardless manifold in the number twenty Jefferies tube?

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

English is a mess of a language and it evolves in strange ways. I for one like that.

So the TV is on in the next room and I keep hearing someone saying "asshole road" so I go over to see what prompted this on daytime TV.

"Asphalt road." Pronunciation around the world is weird, yo.

 

[Jolene Benoir]

So the TV is on in the next room and I keep hearing someone saying "asshole road" so I go over to see what prompted this on daytime TV.

"Asphalt road." Pronunciation around the world is weird, yo.

I was talking on the phone to a friend that I met in SL in 2007 the other day. He lives in Hawaii. He said, "I love hearing your accent as it has been awhile since we last spoke in person. I was like, "Say what, I don't have an accent and I definitely don't say, you betcha."

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I was talking on the phone to a friend that I met in SL in 2007 the other day. He lives in Hawaii. He said, "I love hearing your accent as it has been awhile since we last spoke in person. I was like, "Say what, I don't have an accent and I definitely don't say, you betcha."

Relative who's lived in Greater Vancouver, BC all their life once told me, "Vangcouver* is the only place in the world where people don't speak with an accent."

*intentional spelling

Then again I originate from Emuntun which is north of Calgree, and that's nowhere near Trona or Mon Tree All.

Add: Midwest/Great Lakes people sound mostly accent free to me.

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

My mom swears I don't have an accent, and maybe she's right - or rather I've a very neutral USian one. But then I spent my formative years living in Frankfurt W Germany, Augusta GA, Harrisburg PA, Point Pleasant Beach NJ, and was born in Stuttgart. Then in Munich and then Atlanta for 40 years, watching lots of British TV shows.

So, its possible its just I don't have any sort of regional one, so that counts, right?

 

[Jolene Benoir]

Relative who's lived in Greater Vancouver, BC all their life once told me, "Vangcouver* is the only place in the world where people don't speak with an accent."

Then again I originate from Emuntun which is north of Calgree, and that's nowhere near Trona or Mon Tree All.

Add: Midwest/Great Lakes people sound mostly accent free to me.

See now, those all sound perfectly fine to my ears, except maybe Trona would sound more like Tarono.

 

[Essence Lumin]

What about inverse non-irregardlessness?

 

[Ashiri]

I was like, "Say what, I don't have an accent and I definitely don't say, you betcha."

Accents are funny things which only other people have. To other people, I am an other person, so I guess I have an accent (NZ with a more-or-less RP tinge).

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Signs of the times

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Accents are funny things which only other people have. To other people, I am an other person, so I guess I have an accent (NZ with a more-or-less RP tinge).

A high school friend from Australia once exclaimed "You lost your accent!"
"Nah, I know where it is. But I seem to have found yours. "

 

[Free]

Um. So are accents another one of the 2020 disasters?

 

[Ashiri]

Um. So are accents another one of the 2020 disasters?

Seems we're talking about anything to distract us from the 2020 disasters!

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Signs of the times

Forsooth.

 

[Rose Karuna]

So the TV is on in the next room and I keep hearing someone saying "asshole road" so I go over to see what prompted this on daytime TV.

"Asphalt road." Pronunciation around the world is weird, yo.

It's not your fault, it's not my fault, it's the asphalt ...