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Irregardless

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  • #32
    Neewbie_noob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 543 ✭✭✭Neewbie_noob


    Skid wrote: »
    People who misuse the word 'literally'.

    I heard a School Principal talking about a compost Recycling scheme when he claimed the School was 'Literally putting the money they made back into the ground'

    If I had a gun, I might have shot him. Literally.

    plus one

    +54487987987465654654


    my ears / eyes literally bleed when I see / hear that


  • #33
    jaykay74
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,629 ✭✭✭jaykay74


    Simples :mad:


  • #34
    cantdecide
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,363 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    Skid wrote: »
    People who misuse the word 'literally'.

    I heard a School Principal talking about a compost Recycling scheme when he claimed the School was 'Literally putting the money they made back into the ground'

    If I had a gun, I might have shot him. Literally.

    My favourite is "I got my car fixed last week by that garage and I got literally.... raped".


  • #35
    SuperGrover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 991 ✭✭✭SuperGrover


    Obligated. When was 'obliged' put out to pasture?


  • #36
    El Diablo Blanco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 102 ✭✭El Diablo Blanco


    The ongoing misuse of the word "revert", as a substitute for "reply", and the use of "action" and "on board" as verbs.

    "Please action that by COB, and revert to me on completion of same." F**k off.

    "Can you make sure you on board those new procedures for next month?"

    Pretty much any business/corporate speak boils my blood!


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  • #37
    Anita Blow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,935 ✭✭✭Anita Blow


    I could care less


  • #38
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,605 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Apple,sick of it.


  • #39
    KKkitty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    Funglegunk wrote: »
    cantdecide wrote: »
    Any fellow pedants have any thoughts on the misuse of the word random?

    ENOUGH ALREADY! NEXT FAD WORD PLEASE!

    Your post is EPIC.
    Your post is totes amazeballs :D My eyes/ears almost bleed on hearing/seeing those words.


  • #40
    emzolita
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,602 ✭✭✭emzolita


    haha, I worked with a teacher last year who used to say "irregardless" all the time, she also put a "th" in the word "taught", so she'd say "girls, I thought you that last week"
    Used to drive me mad.
    Oh she also said that an apostrophe s, like "sweet's" is to be put in when a word is PLURAL!!!! OMFG!
    what did I know, I was only an SNA.


  • #41
    Toby Take a Bow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭Toby Take a Bow


    Skid wrote: »
    People who misuse the word 'literally'.

    I heard a School Principal talking about a compost Recycling scheme when he claimed the School was 'Literally putting the money they made back into the ground'

    It would be literal if they were actually putting money they'd made in the compost recycling scheme.

    It's possible that the word 'literal' is actually shifting to mean the exact opposite of what it means at the moment. Awful, terrific, etc. Those words don't mean what they originally intended, and often mean the complete opposite.


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  • #42
    BizzyC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,012 ✭✭✭BizzyC


    I always hate when you see people on forums saying "taught" instead of "thought".

    It's not even a "there" "their" type situation, they're two words that are pronounced differently...


  • #43
    castletownman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,249 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    Mispronouncation is my one pet peeve. Drives me fooking spare. It reminds of the following joke:

    Edward Deidde, the man who spent his entire life explaining that his surname was pronounced "deed" has collapsed. He was airlifted to hospital where he was pronounced dead.


  • #44
    charlietheminxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,579 ✭✭✭charlietheminxx


    summerskin wrote: »
    for all intensive purposes theirs nothing wrong with that, though they could of said something better then irregardless. they need to be more pacific.

    One of the best things I've ever read on here. Ever.


  • #45
    Skid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,872 ✭✭✭Skid


    emzolita wrote: »
    I worked with a teacher last year ...
    Oh she also said that an apostrophe s, like "sweet's" is to be put in when a word is PLURAL!!!! OMFG!
    what did I know, I was only an SNA.

    That is depressing. :(

    What chance have the children got when their Teacher has no understanding of Grammar?


  • #46
    Pacly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 99 ✭✭Pacly


    am not sure i know any...


  • #47
    Rigol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 465 ✭✭Rigol


    americans - "i could care less".
    ffffffffffffffu


  • #48
    who_me
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,669 ✭✭✭who_me


    "Onboarding". As in, to bring someone on board, figuratively. As in, to bring them up to speed on a new job..

    God damn it! I can't even explain the word, without going through two or three more layers of phrases I don't like.


  • #49
    Wise Old Elf
    Moderators Posts: 3,554 ✭✭✭Wise Old Elf


    summerskin wrote: »
    for all intensive purposes theirs nothing wrong with that, though they could of said something better then irregardless. they need to be more pacific.

    My brain, just like, literally exploded reading that. Totes amazeballs! :p


  • #50
    Quorum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 474 ✭✭Quorum


    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    In general I am a pretty laid back, chilled out person.

    However, I have just been surprised to learn that when people use "irregardless" in a sentence, without their tongue firmly planted in their cheek, it causes a blood-boiling rage to well up in my chest.

    I cannot explain how someone being ignorant enough to use as asinine non-word, which technically means the opposite of what they're are trying to convey, could cause me to react so strongly. But it does. And I needed to vent.

    What little foibles cause you to irrationally overreact?

    Irregardless is a word. It means the same as regardless. It's not incorrect to use, whether you think it is or not. It is apparently beginning to fall out of use though.


  • #51
    Varied
    Closed Accounts Posts: 725 ✭✭✭Varied


    Count Wankula wrote: »
    Boils my piss.

    Best username ever. :D


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  • #52
    BattleCorp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,867 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    Will somebody tell the GAA commentators and other clowns that there is no such word as TREMENJOUS. :mad::mad:

    The word is tremendous.

    Phew, glad that's done, I got annoyed just typing the word the wrong way.


  • #53
    take everything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,995 ✭✭✭take everything


    summerskin wrote: »
    for all intensive purposes theirs nothing wrong with that, though they could of said something better then irregardless. they need to be more pacific.

    Its incredulous how much anger irregardless illicits in me.
    Revert back to me about this.


  • #54
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Foibles. What a silly little word. It sounds like a French disease. It doesn't make my blood boil though, that is reserved for 'fickle'


  • #55
    JerseyJoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53 ✭✭JerseyJoe


    I find that typos in publications actually bug me more than any incorrect word usage.

    They're supposed to actually know how to use the words correctly. It grinds my gears.


  • #56
    Rothmans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭Rothmans


    It pisses me off when people use being instead of been. As in, 'It has being a great day. Oddly enough, I don't mind when people get it the other way around.

    It just makes me so mad, and I don't know why. Also, when people use then instead of than. And should of instead of should have.

    But 'being' is by far the worst. It just makes me so gosh darn mad.


  • #57
    fred funk }{
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,846 ✭✭✭fred funk }{


    My grasp of the English language is a blessing in the skies.


  • #58
    kincsem
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,012 ✭✭✭kincsem


    Funglegunk wrote: »
    Your post is EPIC.
    FACT.


  • #59
    kincsem
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,012 ✭✭✭kincsem


    Eggcetera.


  • #60
    Gongoozler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,263 ✭✭✭Gongoozler


    Hate to rain on your parade here*, but irregardless is actually a word now.




    *may not be true


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  • #61
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,784 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    The previous Irregardless thread went to four pages. I wonder how long this one will go on.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056470077

    Irregardless is in 27 dictionaries according to this:

    http://www.onelook.com/?w=irregardless&ls=a


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