On Dec 9, 2009, at 12:01 PM, "Hill, Brett" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> That's it, were officially at war :) >> Sorry, had to say it, I use it all the time to piss people >> off. It's kinda funny. > > http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/irregardless > > I suppose it's "nonstandard" to say it, but I was using it to provide > emphasis (which according to dictionary.com/Random House says is > ok...because I'm an educated speaker from the South :-)). It is indeed becoming one of those words that just gets used and accepted. Sort of like "I could care less" and "I couldn't care less". Funny, now that you mention it, most people I know who use it, are indeed from the south, they just moved to the West. I'll counter your URL reference with one of my own favorites: http://i.word.com/idictionary/Bling For those wondering what the heck we are bantering on about : http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irregardless I think it's the double negative that I can't not wrap my head around. :) Take care. -- Scott Iphone says hello. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
