For my fellow grammar/spelling fascists on DU.

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89. Easy.

"Regardless" is already a word - a real word - not one sprung from the brains of moronic mouth-breathers who can't grasp what a fucking double-negative is, innit.

Say I'm a person reading something in English and I come across "irregardless". Well, my brain - which has come to learn the rules of English - now has to perform some kind of weird acrobatics about why a double-negative has been used to construct a word which means "regarding". Oh, wait!! That doesn't work, because the word is only supposed to mean "regardless"!! Well, shit then, I think the author probably would have been better to just use "regardless". Yeah, lets just fuck the rules about double-negatives. This isn't fucking Czech where having two negatives adds emphasis. It's English where one negative cancels another one out.

Your example then has nothing to do with this argument. I don't want to get into the finer points about the differences between the definitions and uses of "tintinnabulation" and "tinkle", but I can tell you that Poe probably knew that using "tinkleless" or "nontinkle" would not work.