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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: 2) by DannyB on Monday July 13 2020, @03:31PM (7 children)
Sorry, Orienting?
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday July 13 2020, @04:01PM (5 children)
I'd rather say "orientation", as in "to provide an orientation", but ...
(after all, 't's your native language, do what you want with it - grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Interesting) by acid andy on Monday July 13 2020, @04:19PM (4 children)
That's what confuses me. If the infinitive is "to orient", shouldn't that then be "oriention" (which is quite hard to say)?
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday July 13 2020, @04:32PM (2 children)
With irregardless being a word... you still expect something logical from the English language?
(and don't get me started on spelling. Many other countries/languages with sane spelling rules don't waste their kids time with spelling-bees and such non-senses, a time that can be put to better uses)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Touché) by acid andy on Monday July 13 2020, @05:21PM (1 child)
It isn't! ; P Not a proper one, anyway.
It's more a wish than an expectation really.
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(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday July 13 2020, @09:04PM
You can expectate what you like, mate. English doesn't bow to such whims.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2020, @08:22PM
Past perfect partiple: "Orientated: the state of having been oriented." Perfect tense seems to be disass-pearing in English. Recently it is alway "pleaded" instead of "pled", in contexts where a past perfect is preferable to a plate of peonies, or a simple past.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday July 13 2020, @09:11PM
And once you've got that -tion form, there's a process called back formation which is annoyingly regular, by design, so who's to argue against it.
Does communication take place, that's the only question that needs to be asked. With a lot of modern argot, to be honest, I'm tempted to say the answer's no, but I'm absolutely convinced I can communicate in a way that youngsters wouldn't understand, so it's all fair.
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