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It begs the question, irregardless of whether we want to maximalize understanding or minimilize confusion.

by spodek 6y ago

tn890 6y ago
>irregardless That's not a word, ironically enough.
- kaishiro 6y ago
  I believe the entire comment was tongue-cheeked.
  - spodek 6y ago
    Yes, I was being ironical.
    - JohnStrangeII 6y ago
      I didn't see it immediately either, it's amazing how good my brain auto-corrected "maximalize" and "minimilize" without me even noticing.
- jhfdbkofdcho 6y ago
  Merriam-Webster raised the hackles of stodgy grammarians last week when it affirmed the lexical veracity of "irregardless." The word's definition, when reading it, would seem to be: without without regard. "Irregardless is included in our dictionary because it has been in widespread and near-constant use since 1795," the dictionary's staff wrote in a "Words of the Week" roundup on Friday. "We do not make the English language, we merely record it." Merriam-Webster defines irregardless as "nonstandard" but meaning the same as "regardless." "Many people find irregardless to be a nonsensical word, as the ir- prefix usually functions to indicates negation; however, in this case it appears to function as an intensifier," the dictionary writes. https://www.npr.org/2020/07/07/887649010/regardless-of-what-you-think-irregardless-is-a-word https://www.npr.org/2020/07/07/887649010/regardless-of-what-...
  - dingaling 6y ago
    > "We do not make the English language, we merely record it." Which is an evasion, because they know they are respected as an authority on the language and therefore they do actually make the language, or at least legitimise mis-use.
0-_-0 6y ago
Allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are ALL wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there.
- jasode 6y ago
  As fyi... the thread's article is about a change in meaning for words that people know how to spell. Your famous paragraph is more about "mishearing" words. Mondegreens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen

It begs the question, irregardless of whether we want to maximalize understanding or minimilize confusion.

by spodek 6y ago

It begs the question, irregardless of whether we want to maximalize understanding or minimilize confusion.

tn890 6y ago

>irregardless That's not a word, ironically enough.

kaishiro 6y ago
I believe the entire comment was tongue-cheeked.
- spodek 6y ago
  Yes, I was being ironical.
  - JohnStrangeII 6y ago
    I didn't see it immediately either, it's amazing how good my brain auto-corrected "maximalize" and "minimilize" without me even noticing.
jhfdbkofdcho 6y ago
Merriam-Webster raised the hackles of stodgy grammarians last week when it affirmed the lexical veracity of "irregardless." The word's definition, when reading it, would seem to be: without without regard. "Irregardless is included in our dictionary because it has been in widespread and near-constant use since 1795," the dictionary's staff wrote in a "Words of the Week" roundup on Friday. "We do not make the English language, we merely record it." Merriam-Webster defines irregardless as "nonstandard" but meaning the same as "regardless." "Many people find irregardless to be a nonsensical word, as the ir- prefix usually functions to indicates negation; however, in this case it appears to function as an intensifier," the dictionary writes. https://www.npr.org/2020/07/07/887649010/regardless-of-what-you-think-irregardless-is-a-word https://www.npr.org/2020/07/07/887649010/regardless-of-what-...
- dingaling 6y ago
  > "We do not make the English language, we merely record it." Which is an evasion, because they know they are respected as an authority on the language and therefore they do actually make the language, or at least legitimise mis-use.

0-_-0 6y ago

Allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are ALL wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there.

jasode 6y ago
As fyi... the thread's article is about a change in meaning for words that people know how to spell. Your famous paragraph is more about "mishearing" words. Mondegreens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen