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[creaturecat]

Originally Posted by ckissick

Whenever someone tells they could care less about something I always want ask how much less they can care.

Irregardless is a word, apparently. (Although my spell check is not recognizing it.)

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/is-irregardless-a-real-word-heh-heh

a recent change.
i got totally roasted for using that word in post secondary. big red letters - and an arrow.

[red-beard]

Nuclear

ˈn(y)o͞o-klē-ər

[red-beard]

Ex-Mrs Beard was the queen of mixed metaphors and screwed up phrases

She could not say scapegoat. "I don't want to be the scrapegoat". Ouch!!!

Wrong sayings: "Like a Bull in a China closet" - shop. China shop!

And the famous: "I don't give two $#!T$ to the wind!"

Huh?!?

[Tervuren]

I love to pronounce words funny from time to time.

Even better to misspronounce words like Thingamajig, whatchamacallit, etc...

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by matthewb0051

Former boss very well respected used to say iregardless quite often. He ended up being a judge on the trial bench and the Army criminal appellate court.

Drove me crazy when he said it.

Then just last week, I was talking with an attorney friend and I said its not a proper word. She tells me that it is indeed a word.

SMH

Dictionaries add words as they become more widely used including slang, technical and layman's speech.

The only problem with irregardless is that regardless means exactly the same thing w/o the prefix -ir. The theory goes that it's a combination of irrespective and regardless. There's nothing really wrong with it other than the prefix and suffix are redundant.

I wouldn't put it in a formal writing form and I personally don't use the term.

But I've heard much worse butchering on the English language that irregardless barely moves the needle for me.

[Joe Bob]

As a lawyer. As a mother. As a douche bag. Most of us already know.

May I strangle you if you say it one more time?

[WPOZZZ]

Originally Posted by red-beard

Ex-Mrs Beard was the queen of mixed metaphors and screwed up phrases

She could not say scapegoat. "I don't want to be the scrapegoat". Ouch!!!

Wrong sayings: "Like a Bull in a China closet" - shop. China shop!

And the famous: "I don't give two $#!T$ to the wind!"

Huh?!?

Was she on NCIS?

[flatbutt]

"I was sweatin' protrusively!" A friend of mine just could not say profusely...'twas wierd.

[Nostril Cheese]

Originally Posted by look 171

That's a Hispanic thing. I notice a lot of the younger Hispanic-American say supposedly that way.

Same with Absolubeley.

[Nostril Cheese]

Originally Posted by Tervuren

I love to pronounce words funny from time to time.

Even better to misspronounce words like Thingamajig, whatchamacallit, etc...

I sometimes yell random things at people. Tis fun.

"Only a corn burrito would know!"

"I got the mad dance mother funky!"

[KNS]

Funny thread but at the same time not so funny. Teachers and parents should be catching this stuff before letting their kids out into the world.

I once worked with a gal who was born and raised in England. One day she was having a conversation with someone who was having trouble understanding a few of the things she was saying (I'd known her for a while and always thought she was well spoken). The fella asks her: "Who taught you to speak that way?"

She replies: "The Queen!".

[herr_oberst]

Sometimes it's fun to hit the silent letter extra hard in words like subtle or knight or mortgage.

[Norm K]

I like flammable and inflammable.

The prefix "in" could reasonably make one conclude that they have opposite meanings when they're actually identical.

_

[Tervuren]

Originally Posted by Nostril Cheese

I sometimes yell random things at people. Tis fun.

"Only a corn burrito would know!"

"I got the mad dance mother funky!"

People ask me questions just to find entertainment in the answer I come up with.

The other day I was asked about cell towers and started explaining about Sell Towers. Towers built to be topped with elevated signage letting people know to stop by and spend their money on what is being sold.

[Norm K]

Originally Posted by Tervuren

I love to pronounce words funny from time to time.

And who's not a fan of a good malapropism?


After years of internet reading, and seeing people who don't know how to spell definitely, allow their computer's Spell Check to change their misspelling to defiantly, I've gone to occasionally following their lead as in, "I defiantly need a cup of coffee".

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[Nostril Cheese]

Originally Posted by Tervuren

People ask me questions just to find entertainment in the answer I come up with.

The other day I was asked about cell towers and started explaining about Sell Towers. Towers built to be topped with elevated signage letting people know to stop by and spend their money on what is being sold.

Take my money, ****h!

[Nostril Cheese]

Originally Posted by Norm K

I like flammable and inflammable.

The prefix "in" could reasonably make one conclude that they have opposite meanings when they're actually identical.

_

[gorthar]

Originally Posted by Nostril Cheese

I sometimes yell random things at people. Tis fun.

"Only a corn burrito would know!"

"I got the mad dance mother funky!"

[Nostril Cheese]

Originally Posted by gorthar

well played, sir.

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by Norm K

I like flammable and inflammable.

The prefix "in" could reasonably make one conclude that they have opposite meanings when they're actually identical.

_

Imflamable

So close, but yet so far

In vs. Im