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> it is obviously a stupid word, and that makes it stupider. This is the social signaling aspect of language at work, not the communication part. Human brains
by jt2190 6y ago
> it is obviously a stupid word, and that makes it stupider.
This is the social signaling aspect of language at work, not the communication part.
Human brains can trivially digest the correct meaning of “irregardless”. Using the word, however, marks someone as not having had a “proper” education, and would perhaps brand the speaker as “stupid”, “irregardless” of whether the idea they were expressing was intelligent or not.
- balfirevic 6y ago> Human brains can trivially digest the correct meaning of “irregardless”. It can also understand the meaning of "iregardles", "ireggardless" and "irregardlless". Is that really a sufficient condition for the word to be considered correct?
- amanaplanacanal 6y agoGiven that the purpose of language is to convey meaning, I'd say yes.
- ryandrake 6y agoif meerly "convaying meening" iz the bar then tihs snentenennce is currect english.
- kmm 6y agoYou'll find that people, even those without formal education in English like me, don't generally write like that. I think just reading and writing a lot makes one's spelling naturally converge to the most common one.
- baddox 6y agoExcept if you are actually well-educated then you would know that “irregardless” is widely used to mean the same thing as “regardless” and thus to use it as such would not be a sign of a lack of education.
- daffy 6y ago> This is the social signaling aspect of language at work How so? Surely those who say `regardless', the vast majority, are not trying to signal anything.