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September 17, 2007
i'm sure our dear mr. luse would agree
help! i'm seeing the word irregardless -- oh, that word is like a fingernail scraping across a chalkboard -- used by journalists! the word used to be confined to the likes of sportscasters and mouth-readers, but now even so-called educated people are using it. why, I even heard it used on *gasp* npr just the other day. the word is regardless, people, re-gard-less. see the -less in there? newsflash: using the ir- prefix and -less suffix in a single word is not only redundant, it’s stupid. i will admit that at times i have horrible grammar and my spelling is abysmal, but at least i’m butchering the correct words. please. stop the madness!
Posted by smockmomma at September 17, 2007 6:49 AM
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Ah, these stupid prefixes! They add them and omit them in the daftest of ways. To quote Strunk and White: "unless your concern is the safety of children and illiterates, use inflammable."
But my biggest pet peeve in the abuse of the Englisch tongue (not that I have anything against the abuse of England herself - give my my helmet and my Stuka!) is the non-word "snuck."
Now, we can all imagine Snuck Calliopetwister as a petite petty criminal in some Dickens book, but the proper past tense of sneak is "sneaked."
C'mon people! Give a 110% on mastering the basic fundamentals of speech! Don't use no double negatives!
Posted by: Erik Keilholtz at September 21, 2007 2:04 PM