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Will "regardless" die in our lifetimes?

Busaiku

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So I was watching this video from Nerdsync on the use "whelmed' in Young Justice. Having never bothered to look up the word ever, and being the idiot I am, I legitimately thought it was just a neutral state.

So with "irregardless" being so commonly used, I wonder if it will supplant "regardless" in the next 50 - 70 years.

I hope it doesn't, I like "regardless".
 
bremon

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Irregardless is a word soaked in idiocy so... yeah I imagine regardless' days are numbered.
 
Hollywood Duo

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Okabe

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regardless if it dies or not I will still say it.
 
Static

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The use of double negative "for clarity" is bizarre. Double negatives make things more ambiguous, not less. Some redundancies make sense as intensifiers. Irregardless is a grammatical invention that does the exact opposite of "providing a deeper level of power and clarity." When I first heard it I was genuinely confused by it. Regardless, I got over it. Use whichever word you like. I could care less.
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The real scourge that nobody's paying attention to are blockheads who say "worse" instead of "worst" and "bias" instead of "biased"
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It's past time you should of learned to live with these sorts of things.
 

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Nothing stops the flow of time and English language will evolve and adapt as words fall out of favours, get invented or supplanted.

I mean take the word Gay, it's more commonly associated with to refer a person who is attracted to the same gender than the old mean of "light-hearted and carefree."

Or the fact that words like selfie only recently existed.
 

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OP, you're being very chalant.

Jokes aside, I get a little tired of the language-is-fluid argument. It is true but I find it's usually invoked to excuse laziness or quirks in language. It behooves you to speak accurately. I like a dumb throw-away joke as much as anyone but in the end, if you can convey your thoughts succinctly, everyone wins.
 
zoggy

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Static said:
The use of double negative "for clarity" is bizarre. Double negatives make things more ambiguous, not less. Some redundancies make sense as intensifiers. Irregardless is a grammatical invention that does the exact opposite of "providing a deeper level of power and clarity." When I first heard it I was genuinely confused by it. Regardless, I got over it. Use whichever word you like. I could care less.

It's past time you should of learned to live with these sorts of things.
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Heshinsi

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I just listened to an Eminem song where he uses "could care less" and "irregardless" both in the same song. Couldn't even get through the rest of the song.
 

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If the word "literally" can become its own antonym, then by god, irregardless will eventually be the correct word.

Also, "could" may also become its own antonym because "I could care less."

Heshinsi said:
I just listened to an Eminem song where he uses "could care less" and "irregardless" both in the same song. Couldn't even get through the rest of the song.
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NM. Stealth edit. You got it.
 
thefragrance

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Irregardless of what anyone itt thinks, 'I could care less' makes as much sense as 'I couldn't care less,' but that's a mute point.
 
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No, the real crime are people who keep mixing up 'loose' when they meant to say 'lose'. I see it at least once-a-day and it drives me insane. This isn't like 'effect' versus 'affect' which I would sympathize with since I constantly mix them up. This though, it's not hard people, come on.
 
Chikor

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Busaiku said:
So I was watching this video from Nerdsync on the use "whelmed' in Young Justice. Having never bothered to look up the word ever, and being the idiot I am, I legitimately thought it was just a neutral state.

So with "irregardless" being so commonly used, I wonder if it will supplant "regardless" in the next 50 - 70 years.

I hope it doesn't, I like "regardless".
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Is there evidence that its usage is growing?
"Irregardless" It's a pretty old ass word and if anything, its of an old-timey style of double negative that has generally fell out favor in English.

Anyway, I seriously doubt that "regardless" is going away any time soon.
 
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Busaiku said:
So I was watching this video from Nerdsync on the use "whelmed' in Young Justice. Having never bothered to look up the word ever, and being the idiot I am, I legitimately thought it was just a neutral state.

So with "irregardless" being so commonly used, I wonder if it will supplant "regardless" in the next 50 - 70 years.

I hope it doesn't, I like "regardless".
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I'm not aware that anybody outside North America says irregardless.

Or thusly.
 
dejay

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I saw "comfortness" written today.

I was assuming English wasn't their first language but you never know.
 
Fudgepuppy

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I've never heard anyone IRL say irregardless.

I'm getting fucking tired of people who mix up their apostrophes.

"Who's car is it?"
"Its a Lamborghini"
"I heard it's steering wheel feels great"-
"Their is a car on the road"
"Your sure?"

Just fucking kill me.
 
deafmedal

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So I'd really like, like "our" to be used and pronounced properly. Peoples say "are" like there pirates, even going as far as too spell it wrongly to!
 
ZmillA

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I said irregardless in a presentation once and all my team members corrected me afterwards. At first I was like, "is it really such a big deal, you all knew what I meant" But ever since then I've been consious of it and use regardless instead.
 
Francesco

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I've never heard irregardless used in my life.
Is it used as a synonym or an antinonym?

Edit: I guess just wrongly.
 
papermoon

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deafmedal said:
even going as far as too spell it wrongly to!
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hmmm

i know i know

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but it should be "wrong" instead of "wrongly" since the adverb wrong/wrongly is placed after the verb (as opposed to before it). Making the correction in the spirit of the thread. Don't really care about internet typos. I make them more often than not.
 
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Graefellsom

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I wondered if Young Justice was making a reference to 10 Things I About You.. the person who uploaded this had the same idea

Note: I did not watch the entrity of that guys video

 
deafmedal

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papermoon said:
hmmm

i know i know

edit:
but it should be "wrong" instead of "wrongly" since the adverb wrong/wrongly is placed after the verb (as opposed to before it). Making the correction in the spirit of the thread. Don't really care about internet typos. I make them more often than not.
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All accordingly too plan, my freind ;)
 
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