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.
Happens all the time.....
It has been an excepted word since the 1930's, but not preferred for use by many.
Longshadow wrote:
Don'tcha mean "
couldn't care less"?
Pretty sharp for being so early in the morning! Unless he meant what he said!
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!
Isn't it "I could careless"?
Tom
By adopting that change you won’t accidentally offend ignorant people.
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!
Tom Hungerford wrote:
Isn't it "I could careless"?
Tom
Yes, I was being facetious....
That’s it! I’m leaving the planet. I’m going to learn how to speak Klingon!!
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