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To: cynwoody
Ignorance can be corrected. Rigid jerks will always be with us, and can't be fixed.

/johnny

91 posted on 03/17/2015 9:56:13 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper
Ignorance can be corrected. Rigid jerks will always be with us, and can't be fixed.

From the UD's definition #6 of "irregardless":

Coined in the United States in the early 20th century, it has met with a blizzard of condemnation for being an improper yoking of irrespective and regardless and for the logical absurdity of combining the negative ir- prefix and -less suffix in a single term. Although one might reasonably argue that it is no different from words with redundant affixes like debone and unravel, it has been considered a blunder for decades and will probably continue to be so.

Check out http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/19197/what-words-sound-like-opposites-but-are-synonyms.

95 posted on 03/17/2015 10:26:25 PM PDT by cynwoody
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