dr. kaminski
Ah yes... it's been a while... but when I heard this today, I knew I had to publish it in dumb pe0ple.
My Language Arts Methods teacher... Dr. Kaminski... she said the word--correction--FALSE word, "irregardless" today. This, dumb pe0ple readers, is not a word. However, this WAS the SECOND time this semester that Dr. Kaminski said this word. I'm so sorry to bring this up and be so critical... but seriously, "irregardless" of whether or not she has her doctorate, she should know that the word does not exist.
In the movie "Mean Girls," the character, Gretchen Wieners says the word. Maybe she heard it on there and did not realize that Gretchen was a DUMB character and the use of that word was wrong... IT ISN'T A WORD! This is probably true, 'cause Rebecca Kaminski isn't the nicest of "girls." She most certainly isn't the brightest...
2 Comments:
Hamilton!! I love this and I can't stand Dr. K!!!
ir·re·gard·less (r-gärdls)
adv. Nonstandard
Regardless.
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[Probably blend of irrespective, and regardless.]
Usage Note: Irregardless is a word that many mistakenly believe to be correct usage in formal style, when in fact it is used chiefly in nonstandard speech or casual writing. 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.
I found it sort of funny that it is in the dictionary... or at least dictionary.com, but only to say that it is really not a word.
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