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All right. Let's settle something here. The word irregardless - is it a word or is it not a word? Well, this is a debate that Merriam-Webster is now weighing in on in a tweet saying that it is, in fact, a word. And that has led to a whole lot of reaction online.
Merriam-Webster has confirmed that "irregardless" is a word in the dictionary, despite concerns from teachers that it is not.
So fellow Soylentils, irregardless of my opinion, what do your think?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2020, @12:47PM (10 children)
Godwin's applies.
Of course it's a fucking word! Or it was until bored dictionary-Nazis with nothing better to do during COVID came along.
These are the same morons that ban the passive voice and split infinitives on the basis of some abitrary rule their teachers made up for 3rd grade English. Or delete the 'malamanteau' Wikipedia article.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2020, @02:07PM (4 children)
If it's a word, then what does it mean? The opposite of what it actually says? A pretty poor word.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday July 13 2020, @03:19PM (2 children)
I don't want to hear no more whining, you ain't have no rights [verbling.com] to exclude minorities that use dialects [businessinsider.com.au]
(shout-out to Wootery [soylentnews.org] for the second link above)
(also... grin. A sad one)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2020, @08:11PM (1 child)
♫♪"Can't get no! ♫♪ Satifaction!"♫♪ You're in good company.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday July 14 2020, @12:27PM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2020, @01:22PM
To be fair, flammable and inflammable are synonyms, the opposite is unflammable.
The original word was inflammable, meaning able to be inflamed.
As I've heard before, English isn't a language so much as three toddlers in a trench-coat pretending to be one.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday July 13 2020, @05:27PM (2 children)
Things I've learned from authoritative grammar books:
(1) English texts tend to be more lively with active instead of passive voice. That does not mean we need to ban the passive voice.
(2) Sometimes splitting an infinitive is the best way to make your meaning clear.
(3) There's nothing wrong with having a preposition at the end of a sentence.
Thing I've learned on my own:
(4) The presence of typos it the second law of thermodynamics applied to text.
-- hendrik
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2020, @09:20PM
1) That's generally true, however scientific research papers and mystery novels tend to use a lot more passive voice.
2) This is true and it's part of why there was never a rule against doing so. In some cases, grammar demands that infinitives be split up.
3) Yes and as with the previous one, not only is there no rule against doing so, but in some cases you can't avoid it without making the a huge mess of things.
4) Quite possibly, there's no particular reason to think that entropy shouldn't apply to text.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday July 14 2020, @12:31PM
>(4) The presence of typos IT the second law of thermodynamics applied to text.
TRUER WORDS HAVE NEVER BEEN SPOKEN, especially since these ones were read.
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(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday July 13 2020, @08:24PM
I think you mean:
These are the same morons that demand the passive voice to strictly be banned and infinitives to not be split based on some arbitrary rule that was made up by their teachers for 3rd grade English.
:-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2020, @09:57PM
Perhaps aristarchus will tell us if it's a word, after all he's apparently something of an expert on a language that he isn't anywhere near mastering.