Life hasn't been as good since I learned "irregardless" isn't a real word

[Tommy_Carcetti]

Face it, "irregardless" flows off the tongue so much better than "regardless" or "notwithstanding" or "irrespective" (yuck!). It has almost a musical quality to it...irregardless....irregardless...

Dammit! Damn the loss of my innocent blissful ignorance on this word (or non-word, rather.)

Has anyone else's life been shattered upon the realization of this fact?

[madinmaryland]

1. ITS NOT A WORD!!

One of my pet peeves. Sorry!

:hi:

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. Irregardless of your little pet peeves....

You can go to hell!!!!

:sarcasm:

(Joke, joke, joke, just kidding).

[madinmaryland]

4. STOP IT!!1!!

:grr:

:hi:

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. Okay but....

for all intensive purposes, irregardless remains a real word to me.

:)

[madinmaryland]

8. ARRRRRRRR RRRRGGGGGGGG GGGGGGGHHHH!

STOP IT!!1!!

You are casting asparagus on this! SERIESLY!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

9. Nonstandard english is always the flying ointment. n/t

[Z_I_Peevey]

11. Allot of people just don't get it.

And their prolly wrong with they're aposstrofee's too.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. Hearing non-standard words in common parlance has quite an affect on people n/t

[Dora]

13. Ahem.

"IT'S"

not

"ITS"


:hi:

[RebelOne]

2. It is a word, but it is a redundant, nonstandard combination

of irrespective and regardless, according to my grammar manual.

[Orrex]

7. That's irridiculous

And I irreject your assertion as wholly irirelevant.

[kentauros]

10. Courtesy of the Department of Redundancy Department

[Lance_Boyle]

6. It is the name of a restaurant in Raleigh.

So I guess it is as much a word as any other proper noun. Saved on a technicality. Feel free to resume formerly good life.

[Dr. Strange]

14. Nevertheless...

you shouldn't use it.

[KamaAina]

15. I hate to burst your bubble, but "misunderestimated" isn't a word either.

Nor, for that matter, is "Hispanically". :dunce:

[Tommy_Carcetti]

16. Who do you think I am?

The 43rd president of the United States?

[KamaAina]

17. There was a President after Clinton?

As Johnny Carson would have said, "I did not know that."

[Tommy_Carcetti]

21. Well, you know, Cheney, I guess....n/t

[redqueen]

18. I was never under the illusion that it was a real word.

I hate that non-word with the firey passion of a billion suns.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

20. You must have lived a very sad life....

For a while, I was living in a veritable Garden of Eden, free from the worries of wondering if words which mean "despite what was just said before" are proper terminology or Junk English.

[redqueen]

22. Truer words have never been spoken. (nt)

[Redstone]

19. Well, sorry, it is indeed not a word, irregardless of your fondness for it. But at least you

CARE, unlike some people who would say: "Ah, so it's not a word. I could care less."

Or people who would observe that life is comprised of little disappointments like this one.

Hey, I gotta run. I need to take some chicken out of the freezer so it can (yes, I actually HAVE heard people say this) unthaw.

Redstone