"Irregardless"
Oct 30, 2020 08:25:21 #
Someone just told me that "irregardless" is now considered a proper word. Well, there goes the verbal neighborhood. Keep making a mistake long enough, and it will become correct. 
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Oct 30, 2020 08:33:16 #
It has been an excepted word since the 1930's, but not preferred for use by many.
Oct 30, 2020 08:34:38 #
Dannj wrote:
I could care less🥴
Don'tcha mean "couldn't care less"?
Oct 30, 2020 08:37:24 #
Longshadow wrote:
Don'tcha mean "couldn't care less"?
Pretty sharp for being so early in the morning! Unless he meant what he said! Oct 30, 2020 08:38:40 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Someone just told me that "irregardless" is now considered a proper word. Well, there goes the verbal neighborhood. Keep making a mistake long enough, and it will become correct.
I can remember my English Teacher in High School
Poor woman is probably turning in her grave. The English are probably laughing at us now!
Oct 30, 2020 08:38:44 #
Oct 30, 2020 08:40:30 #
By adopting that change you won’t accidentally offend ignorant people.
Oct 30, 2020 08:43:23 #
DaveO wrote: Pretty sharp for being so early in the morning! Unless he meant what he said!
Pretty sharp for being so early in the morning! Unless he meant what he said! 
Oct 30, 2020 08:43:54 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Someone just told me that "irregardless" is now considered a proper word. Well, there goes the verbal neighborhood. Keep making a mistake long enough, and it will become correct.
That process is called language. Words mean what the community speaking them want them to mean.
Ain't no biggie!
Oct 30, 2020 08:44:19 #
Tom Hungerford wrote:
Isn't it "I could careless"?
Tom
Tom
Yes, I was being facetious....
Oct 30, 2020 08:44:39 #
That’s it! I’m leaving the planet. I’m going to learn how to speak Klingon!!
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