Posted on 10/08/2020 6:13:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
Definition of irregardless
Non standard
: Regardless
I told them that irregardless of what you read in books, they's some members of the theatrical profession that occasionally visits the place where they sleep.— Ring Lardner
Frequently Asked Questions About irregardlessIs irregardless a word? Yes. It may not be a word that you like, or a word that you would use in a term paper, but irregardless certainly is a word. It has been in use for well over 200 years, employed by a large number of people across a wide geographic range and with a consistent meaning. That is why we, and well-nigh every other dictionary of modern English, define this word. Remember that a definition is not an endorsement of a word’s use.
Does irregardless mean the same thing as regardless?Yes. We define irregardless as "regardless." Many people find irregardless to be a nonsensical word, as the ir- prefix usually functions to indicates negation; however, in this case it appears to function as an intensifier. Similar ir- words, while rare, do exist in English, including irremediless ("remediless"), irresistless ("resistless") and irrelentlessly ("relentlessly).
Is irregardless slang?
We label irregardless as “nonstandard” rather than “slang.” When a word is nonstandard it means it is “not conforming in pronunciation, grammatical construction, idiom, or word choice to the usage generally characteristic of educated native speakers of a language.” Irregardless is a long way from winning general acceptance as a standard English word. For that reason, it is best to use regardless instead.
First Known Use of irregardless
1795, in the meaning defined above
Here you go,Smart Ass
I was about 10 years old and I remember my mother told me to spell a word that I never heard before. She was surprised that I spelled it correctly.
It’s not a good word. It’s a useless work.
It’s from the Office of Redundancy Office.
That is my experience, too. I taught special ed kids two of my three years as a teacher. My last year, I was the only special ed teacher in the smallish school. One kid, 4th grader, introduced himself to me by saying, "Hi, I'm MR and I can't read." I explained to him that having mental retardation might make it harder to learn, but it did not mean he could not read. I told him about the janitor at a school I'd worked at while I was taking the prep classes I needed a few years before. He had graduated the Trainable MR program at that high school about 20 year before. On his breaks, he spent his time reading L.Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth.
Time came for the kid's IEP meeting, and I told him that by the end of the year, he would be reading on the first grade level, or one of us was going to die. And that it wouldn't be me. His mom is sitting there nodding her head!!! I had tested him, and there were two of the Dolch List words that he did recognize. I and a.
I got to spend two hours with him each day, and we worked on the Dolch list. We also worked on phonics. Dolch list words are the very common ones, including I and a. Memorizing them, AND sounding them out, and finding fractions of longer words on the Dolch List, and in other common words. While I was working with him, I had other students who were learning English as a second language, Spanish in particular. Talked to their parents, as well. Told them to encourage their kids to read in English and Spanish. They have many commonalities. Sounds of the letters are not always the same, but they're often at least similar, and any reading practice is good practice. Making connections between things they know and do helps to make the words mean more to them. You work it into everything you do with them, and have them do it constantly. I told them to read it out loud, as that adds one more way of processing. They've been hearing the words pronounced all their lives, and know what they sound like when others us them, too. It all helps. That, and never give up. Tested the kid again, at the end of the year, and he knew the basic 300 word Dolch list, and could read simple stories. Low first grade, but 1st grade. Last thing he said to me was: "See, I told you I could read!"
I loved those readers as that was what I used in 1965-66.
Diagramming....yes, I did, and when I homeschooled my kids in the ‘90’s, diagramming was part of their English curriculum.
Korean is a phonetic alphabet, to my understanding. Each symbol represents a sound. The string of symbols represent the sound of a word.
I do not know about Chinese (or any variety thereof). I do know that my verbal Korean, such as it is, is greatly advanced over written Korean - because I never learned the sounds of the symbols.
Sight words for a very few items make sense. Words like “and”, “a”, “the”, etc. But beyond these common single-pronunciation words, sight words are destructive to learning cognitive reading, IMHO.
I don’t care what you say, Merriam Webster dictionary says it is a word and they are smarter than you. Cambridge dictionary also says it is a word. As does Wikipedia.
I just checked the Google translation of the word what it means in German, since German is my native language, and it means unabhängig davon
It’s a poor word. It shouldn’t be used.
I was like the world's champ at diagramming sentences. My daughter teaches English in middle school and still teaches diagramming - helps visual learners to see the breakdown of a sentence.
I think ‘sight words’ come well after the reader becomes proficient at reading.
At a certain point, the word becomes not the sound it makes (phonetics), but the meaning itself. But that happens only after the reader has read literally millions of words and seen the word thousands of times in hundreds of contexts.
Trying to skip this process and teach ‘sight words’ directly to children is idiotic and debilitating to the child.
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