So some random thoughts today while reading some website and the comments made. A poster claimed that “Irregardless of the validity of the data…” and I thought…
Irregardless isn’t really a word. I guess it’s gained popularity but if you think about it… it’s an improper yoking of the words irrespective and regardless. It is no different from words with redundant affixes like debone and unravel – [ (de-)bone which both mean to separate from the bone and (un-)ravel mean to spearate or undo ]. Flammable and inflammable both mean the same thing, too.
To go further with our Engrish… an interesting thing is that cleave means both to split apart and to adhere together.
Words are so meaningless. Especially sentences.
Here’s how some people butcher the English language:
www.engrish.com